"Saluted the brave young captain."
And when he beheld the maiden, the soldier of
Carignan,
And looked on the little garrison that fought
the red Iroquois
And held their own in the battle, for six long
weary days,
He stood for a moment speechless, and marvelled
at woman's ways.
Then he beckoned the men behind him, and
steadily they advance
And with carabines uplifted the veterans of
France
Saluted the brave young Captain so timidly
standing there,
And they fired a volley in honor of Madeleine
Vercheres.
And this, my dear, is the story of the maiden
Madeleine.
God grant that we in Canada may never see
again
Such cruel wars and massacre, in waking or in
dream,
As our fathers and mothers saw, my child, in
the days of the old régime!
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