Tag: Le Griffon
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The Launch of the Griffin by Thomas D’Arcy McGee
I. Within Cayuga’s forest shade The stocks were set—the keel was laid— Wet with the nightly forest dew, The frame of that first vessel grew. Strange was the sight upon the brim Of the swift river, even to him ‡‡The builder of the bark; To see its artificial lines Festoon’d with summer’s sudden vines, ‡‡Another…