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The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon by Mrs. (Rosanna Eleanor) Leprohon
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Ici reposent
Les restes mortels
de
Marie Thérèse Gannensagouas
de la
Congrégation de Notre Dame.

Après avoir exercée pendant treize ans l'office de maitresse
d'école à la montagne, elle mourut en reputation de grande vertu,
âgée de 28 ans, le 25 novembre 1695.]




JACQUES CARTIER'S FIRST VISIT TO MOUNT ROYAL.


He stood on the wood-crowned summit
Of our mountain's regal height,
And gazed on the scene before him,
By October's golden light,
And his dark eyes, earnest, thoughtful,
Lit up with a softer ray
As they dwelt on the scene of beauty
That, outspread, before him lay.

Like a sea of liquid silver,
St. Lawrence, 'neath the sun,
Reflected the forest foliage
And the Indian wigwams dun,
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