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"Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! / Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! / Growing by the rushing river, / Tall and stately in the valley! / I a light canoe will build me, / Build a swift Cheemaun for sailing, / That shall float on the river, / Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, / Like a yellow water-lily!
"Lay aside your cloak, O Birch-tree! / Lay aside your white-skin wrapper, / For the Summer-time is coming, / And the sun is warm in heaven, / And you need no white-skin wrapper!"