Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. / with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various / rivers of Maine and New Brunswick

by John S. Springer

How kindly true hearts welcome us, our wives and children too,

We will spend with these the summer, and once more a lumbering go;

And a lumbering we'll go, so a lumbering we will go,

We will spend with these the summer, and once more a lumbering go.

And when upon the long-hid soil the white Pines disappear,

We will cut the other forest trees, and sow whereon we clear;

Our grain shall wave o'er valleys rich, our herds bedot the hills,

When our feet no more are hurried on to tend the driving mills;

Then no more a lumbering go, so no more a lumbering go,

When our feet no more are hurried on to tend the driving mills.