The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3.
John Greenleaf Whittier, Ed.

Where in mist the rock is hiding,
     And the sharp reef lurks below,
And the white squall smites in summer,
     And the autumn tempests blow;
Where, through gray and rolling vapor,
     From evening unto morn,
A thousand boats are hailing,
     Horn answering unto horn.

Hurrah! for the Red Island,
     With the white cross on its crown!
Hurrah! for Meccatina,
     And its mountains bare and brown!
Where the Caribou's tall antlers
     O'er the dwarf-wood freely toss,
And the footstep of the Mickmack
     Has no sound upon the moss.

There we'll drop our lines, and gather
     Old Ocean's treasures in,
Where'er the mottled mackerel
     Turns up a steel-dark fin.
The sea's our field of harvest,
     Its scaly tribes our grain;
We'll reap the teeming waters
     As at home they reap the plain!

Our wet hands spread the carpet,
     And light the hearth of home;
From our fish, as in the old time,
     The silver coin shall come.