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When, in the days gone by, down the Delaware / The high Spring-floods, with an angry roar / Were running like breakers far up the shore, / Then the riverman by his chimney-seat / Would feel his stout heart strangely beat -- / So 'twas ho! for the raft and the river again, / The raft and the river for rivermen.
When the creeks flow'd wild round the Delaware, / And the sky showed blue through the sharp Spring air, / And the rafts were waiting the raftmen there, / Then these rivermen were ill-content / Until their backs to the oars were bent -- / So 'twas ho! for the raft and the river again, / The raft and the river for rivermen.
When, in days gone by, down the Delaware / Those great rafts tethered against the shore, / Were loosed like chafing steeds once more, / Then out of the valleys, and off the hills / The raftmen came flocking with school-boy wills -- / And 'twas ho! for the raft and the river again, / The raft and the river for rivermen.