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The

Vengeancfe of

Noel Brassard

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of the Acadian Expulsion

By Bliss

Carman

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To y. H. B. and E.

W. R.

Whejt I was very young and Tou held me in your arms Before that

I

I

could walk at

small^

ally

learned your gentlest charms. \\

When I was just And could nt say

a

little

chapy

a things

Tou used

to

take

And talk

to

me and

me

in

your lap

sing.

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Now

I can make up my own

And go about alone. And hear strange tales Of people not my own

songs

in foreign tongues

;

new alluring strains. Wherever I may go. Are blended with the old refrains Tet

all the

That sound of long ago.

The Vengeance

of

Noel Brassard

YOU Of

say

our

we English

fair

Well, here

Your

like to boast

play and British pluck. 's

a tale for

you who

toast

and wish your friends good luck, This snowy Christmas time. toes

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THE VENGEANCE YOU In

take our soft Acadian land

summer

One

for

your thoroughfare;

of the gardens from God's hand,

Orchard and dike, it greets you there A dream of the world's prime.

BUTFrom

winter,

To

when

the

—

snow comes down

the red edges of the

fall.

cover babbling stream and town

With velvet silence like a pall, Can you guess what it means ?

OF NOEL BRASSARD

THE

And

rivers sleep in the

Some

the sun

is

lost;

deep woods now and then

great tree, riving in the frost,

Cracks, and the

Among

;

stillness falls

again

the evergreens.

BUT

one man learned too well who prowls Those wintry barrens choked with snow, And guessed what manner of thing cowls

Its

empty visage from man

so.

Seeing that face too near.

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THE VENGEANCE

THE

Shadow Hunter, whose long

stride

Mortal has yet to tire or tame, Like moonbeam over mountain side

Following round the world

Men

— whose name

hold their breath to hear.

AND

yet,

they say, he has a word

Sweeter than any save the

To summon

those

sea.

who once have

Beyond the bourns of misery. Though one man doubted, I must

heard

think.

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OF NOEL BRASSARD

NOEL BRASSARD, That lovely

The

fall

named

...

It

Beausoleil,

was the year

English traitor did betray

His king and honor; far and near He made his hapless province drink

THE He

dregs of sorrow

;

blood

anc^

bone,

ground them into dust between The upper and the nether stone. The French and English. Wide and green The farms lay in the sun

THE VENGEANCE

THE

apples

hung

in scarlet

ropes

And golden clusters the ripe grain Went billowing up the mountain slopes

And

;

over running dike and plain

The thousand

catiie

TRAILED Grand

one by one

shadows by the Pre, Port Royal, Tantramar, Minas and Shubenacadie, Cobequid, Beausejour, Canard, their long

Melanson, Aulac, and Pereau.

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sea.

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OF NOEL BRASSARD

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WHAT

easier than, simple folk

Fearing the majesty of law,

To Is scattered

From

them as the slow smoke on a windy flaw. scatter

Beaubassin to Gaspereau

?

them and them down PLUCK Bartholomew — A second set

the world-

St.

Leaving the land whence they are hurled

For Lawrence and his pirate crew, Which we enjoy to-day

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THE VENGEANCE NOEL BRASSARD stood by his door,

And

there was haste.

When

brand was

The

last to flee,

set to granary floor.

House, barn, and church, in Chipoudy, That fall, must for a moment stay,

LOADING The sun

his cart to climb the crest at

Michaelmas just

clears.

His wife with her tenth child His mother with her ninety years Safe now and half-way up the hill.

—

lO

3IS-

at breast,

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OF NOEL BRASSARD

AND

there they halted

;

the red sun

Crimsoned the fir-tops over them ; Below they saw the great tide run

Between the grassy dikes that hem The meadows, when the rivers fill

FROM Fundy

like a sluice.

They saw

Their windows in the sunset glare, Then the first smoke of burning straw

from a rick and burst and flare. What ails you, mother Brassard But soft

Steal

!

?

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THE VENGEANCE H AT fancy shakes your age "My son, ?

I shall

Am And

by your

Where

not go with you, for

dying, and

father I shall

strength

is

done

lie,

the white crosses are,

THIS

night."

They

listened.

She was

dead.

(The record

Who

my

I

buried her.)

is

La

And

Guerne*s, the priest

as she said,

happened; the first soul released Upon that march with Death

It

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OF NOEL BRASSARD

AT •

night two figures, digging late

For

had brought

Their pious work

Creaked on

And

safety,

its

hinges

;

the white valley held

the graveyard gate

;

the

to a close

moon

its

rose

;

breath.

you now The wilderness and by your side The shadowy Walker of the Snow,

AH,

Beausoleil, before

To journey On many a

;

with you, stride for stride, drifted valley floor

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THE VENGEANCE «

than Death can do BEHIND you, worsestream

is spilled. As dust upon the The wreckage of your kin shall strew The shores of the world. The land they tilled,

A

politician's prize

of war.

SMALL sown

choice. Brassard!

To

the four winds ; to

From Baton Rouge

to

men

Your

henceforth

Blomidon,

Labrador and the unpeopled North, "Acadian" is an exile's name. 14

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folk are

OF NOEL BRASSARD f

HE

chose the wildernees.

There

is

Be sure

a record of that trail

From sounding Fundy to In the great map that does not fail Yet now we only read, he came

TO

the blue Restigouche with spring.

Under

their ice-floors did

Tobique and Napadogan

And Mamozekel Secrets not

Chaleur,

good

he hear sing,

whisper clear to

know ?

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THE VENGEANCE BY

Villebon's fort did he press on,

Where By the

dwell the unwarlike Melecites great route of the St. John,

In boreal colds and summer heats.

From

Nerepis to Cabineau

?

OR

was his way by the North Shore, Far up to lonely Tracadie,

Where

Of the

the sand islands hear the roar

great gulf, and Miramichi

Slows to meet the tide ?

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!

OF NOEL BRASSARD

DIDA

the Sevogle see

him

flit,

gray and haggard shape of

Or

woe?

the headlong Nepisiguit,

Where the Basque sailor long ago Wedded his Mohawk bride ?

HE

saw

The

in the

long solemn night

giant lanterns of the sky

Streaming about the pole, to light His haunted trail. Nay, Beausoleil,

Dark was your sunshine then

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THE VENGEANCE AND always at the dusk of day, Out of the brushwood, pace for pace,

Would come to join them on the way The One whose snowshoes left no trace. They knew not whence nor when. i'.

MOTHER He

and children, one by one. bade the strangers stay with him And they stayed. Beausoleil went on. With reeling mind and senses dim.

One i8

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—

three

—

five

— nine —

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OF NOEL BRASSARD

HE

saw them smile and close their As the tall Spectre of the cold

eyes,.

Detained them by some wooded

Then

rise.

sink to sleep within the fold

Of moonlit

shine.

first

With two

Upon

and

breaking-up of spring, the blue Restigouche there came.

the

INTo

drift

pale children following

his heels, his eyes like flame,

In the gaunt semblance of a man.

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THE VENGEANCE BRASSARD. NOEL Who

Say, rather, one

had looked horror

And The !

W 1':

undone

Yet trace scheme and plan

left,

—

the

mind

to

hunt and hound

His persecutors from the land. A frenzy at the very sound Of English names would twitch his hand let

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skill to

WAS To

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the bleak goblin had

latches of his soul.

Of hunter's

\

in the face.

the flintlock's

hammer

fall.

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OF NOEL BRA

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he died on D'Anjac's BEFORE By thronged stockade

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roll,

and lonely hut

He

marked them never missed And nicked them on his musket butt

Twenty and

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eight in

is

a soul

all.

the story straight and plain.

Because one Englishman could pawn

His country's honor for mere gain, More need we English should not fawn On Truth to cloak his crime.

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THE VENGEANCE TOO My simple your Acadian heart, Noel, and too late you strove

Not

in the

world was your

Yet peace The world moves on This snowy Christmas time. !

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OF NOEL BRASSARD ONE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED BY WILL BRADLEY AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, IN DECEMBER,

MDCCCCXIX, FOR

BLISS

CARMAN

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