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From: Bill Tufts <>
Subject: Re: [MAINE] 'The Lovely Rivers and Lakes of Maine' by GeorgeB. Wallis
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:07:36 -0500
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Who was this author of this? I have Wallis's in my family & some
went to Maine in the early 1800s from N.B.

There was an unrelated Wallis family that came up the CT. River
in the 1700s? & is remembered by Wallis Lake in NH near the
Quebec border.

The town of Pohenegamook is in Quebec above Fort Fairfield, ME.
After driving through it, I had to say it over and over for an
hour before I could say it without reading it.<g> Seems to me
that Chinquasabamtook is a 2hr. word.

Bill

wrote:
> The Lovely Rivers And Lakes Of Maine by George B.Wallis
>
> O, The lovely rivers and Lakes of Maine!
> I am charmed with their names, as my song will explain;
> Aboriginal muses inspire my strain,
> While I sing the bright rivers and lakes of Maine-
>>From Cupsuptic to Cheputmatticook
>>From Sagadahock to Pohenegamook-
> 'gamook, 'gamook, Pohenegamook,
>>From Sagadahock to Pohenegamook.
> For light serenading the "Blue Moselle",
> "Bonnie Doon" and "Sweet Avon" may do very well;
> But the rivers of Maine, in their wild solitudes,
> Bring a thunderous sound from the depth of the woods:
>
> The Aroostook and Chimmenticook,
> The Chimpanaoc and Chinquassabamtook-
> 'bamtook, 'bamtook, Chinquassabamtook,
> The Chimpassoc and Chinquassabamtook,
> Behold how they sparkle and flash in the sun!
> The Mattewamkeag and the Mussungun;
> The kingly Penobscot, the wild Woolastook,
> Kennebec, Kennebago and Sebasticook;
> The pretty Presumpscut and gay Tulanbic;
> The Ess'quilsagook and little Schoodic-
> Schoodic, Schoodic; The little Schoodic;
> The Ess'quilsagook and little Schoodic.
>
> Yes, Yes, I prefer the bright rivers of Maine,
> To the Rhine or the Rhone or the Saone or the Seine;
> These may do for the Cockney, but give me some nook,
> On the Ammonoosuc or the Wytopadiook.
> On the Umsaskis or the Ripogenis,
> The Ripogenis or the Piscataquis-
> 'aguis, 'aguis,
> The Piscataguis. "Away down South," the Cherokee
> Has named his river the Tennessee,
> The Chattahoochee and the Ocmulgee,
> The Congaree and the Ohoopee;
> But what are they, or the Frenchy Detroit,
>
> To the Passadumkeag or the Wassatoquoit-
> 'toquoit, 'toquoit, The Wassatoquoit,
> To the Passadumkeag or the Wassatoquoit-
> Then turn to the beautiful lakes of Maine
> (To the Sage of Auburn be given the strain,
> The statesman whose genius and bright fancy, makes
> The earth's highest glories to shine in its lakes);
> What lakes out of Maine can we place in the book
> With the Matagomon and the Pangokomook
> ''ommok, 'ommok, The Pangokomook,
> With the Matagomon and the Pangokomook?
> Lake Leman, or Como, what care I for them,
>
> When Maine has the Moosehead and Pangokwahem,
> And, sweet as the dews in the violet's kiss,
> Wallahgosqueqamook and Telesimis;
> And when I can share in the fisherman's bunk
> On the Moosetuckmaguntic or Mol'tunkamunk?
> And Maine has the Eagle Lakes, Cheppawagan,
> And the little Sepic and the little Scapan,
> The spreading Sebago, the Congomgomoc,
> The Milliemet and Motesoinloc,
> Caribou and the fair Anmonjenegamook,
> Oquassaac and rare Wetokenebacook-
> 'acook, 'accook
>
> Oquassac and rare Wetokenebacook.
> And there are the Pokeshine and Patquongomis;
> And there is the pretty Coscomgonnosis,
> The Pemadumook and the old Chesuncook,
> Sepois and Mooseleuk; and take care not to miss
> The Umbazookskus or the Sysladobsis.
> 'dobsis, 'dobsis, The Sysladobsis.
> O, Give me the rivers and lakes of Maine
> In her mountains or forests or fields of grain,
> In the depth of the shade or the blaze of the sun,
> The lakes of Schoodic and the Basconegun,
> And the dear Waubasoos and the clear Aquessuc,
> The Cosbosecontic and Millenkikuk-
> 'kikuk, 'kikuk, The Millenkikuk,
> The Cosbosecontic and Millenkikuk!
>
> Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
>
>
>
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