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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MERRIMACK RIVER AT ITS SOURCE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography
First Line: O merrimack, strong merrimack
Last Line: They blend their deathless floods in thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Merrimac (river); New Hampshire
First Line: O merrimack, strong merrimack
Last Line: They blend their deathless floods in thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Merrimac (river); New Hampshire
O MERRIMACK, strong Merrimack,
All other streams may faint and lack,
Exhale in clouds through dreary lands
Or sink forlorn in desert sands;
New Hampshire's hills and island-sea
Are sureties for thy constancy!
Pemigewasset leaps from the mountains
Where the great Stone-Face looms grand and far;
Winnipesaukee fills at the fountains
Ossipee guards and Chocorua —
The sunny water that smiling lies
With its isles like a path to Paradise;
And where Kearsarge uplifts his shrine
They blend their deathless floods in thine.
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