The vengeance of Noel Brassard;: A tale of the Acadian expulsion

//

^

J%.

.//

%^

A

'k i/.s

IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3)

28

2.5

1.0

^ "^ -I.I

22 ill

IIIIIM

1.8

1.25

V] >

y

^

U

llll

1.6

% CIHM/ICMH

CIHM/ICMH

Microfiche

Collection de microfiches.

Series.

s Canadian

Institute for Historical Microreproductions

institut

1980

Canadian de microreproductions historiques

Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notes techniques et bibliographiques

T t(

The

Institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Features of this

copy which may be bibliographicaily unique, which may alter any of the images in the reproduction, or which may significantly change the usual method of filming, are checked below.

D

Coloured covers/ Couverture de couleur

r~~|

Covers damaged/ Couverture endommagie

microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire a 6t4 possible de se procurer. Les details de cet exemplaire qui sont peut-Atre uniques du point de vue bibliographique, qui peuvent modifier une image reproduite, ou qui peuvent exiger une modification dans la methods normale de filmage sont indiqu6s ci-dessous. L'institut a

qu'il lui

T P o fi

r~| Coloured pages/ Pages de couleur

C

Pages damaged/ Pages endommagies

ti

b

D

Covers restored and/or laminated/ Couverture restaurde et/ou pellicul6e

Cover I

I

title

I

Le

titre

I

Coloured maps/ Cartes gdographiques en couleur

o fi

n~| Pages restored and/or and/oi laminated/ Pages restaurdes et/ou pelliculdes

missing/

de couverture manque

si

I

I

I

I

si oi

Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ foxei Pages d6color6es, tachetdes ou piqu6es Pages detached/ Pages d6tach6es

Ti si

TI

Coloured ink (i.e. other than blue or black)/ Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noire)

w

r~l Showthrough/ Showthrough/ Transparence

IV I

I

Coloured plates and/or illustrations/ Planches et/ou illustrations an couleur

I

I

Quality of print prir varies/ Quality indgaie de I'impression'

I

Includes supplementary material/ materii Comprend du mat6riel suppl^mentaire

di

ei bi

D D

Bound with other material/ Reli6 avec d'autres documents Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion along interior margin/ La reliure serrde peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distortion le lon^; de la

D

marge

int6rieure

Blank leaves added during restoration may appear within the text. Whenever possible, these have been omitted from filming/ 'A se peut que certaines pages blanches ajout^es iors d'une restauration apparaissent dans le texte, mais, lorsque ceia 6tait possible, ces pages n'ont pas 6t6 filmdes.

I

I

I

D

Only edition available/ Seule Edition disponible

Pages wholly or

obscured by errata have been refilmed to ensure the best possible image/ Les pages totalement ou partiellement obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata, une pelure, etc., ont 6t6 fiimdes d nouveau de fa^on d obtenir la meiileure image possible.

comments:/ Commentaires suppl6mentaires;

Additional

This item

is

filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ est fiimA au taux de reduction indiqu6 ci-dessous.

Ce document 10X

partially

slips, tissues, etc.,

ri{

re

m

The copy filmed here has been reproducad thanks to the generosity of:

L'exemplaire filmd fut reproduit grflce d gdndrositd de:

Harriet Irving Library University of New Brunswick

la

Harriet Irving Library University of New Brunswick

The images appearing here are the best

quality possible considering the condition and legibility of the original copy and in keeping with the filming contract specifications.

Les images suivantes ont 6t6 reproduites avec le plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition et de la nettetd de l'exemplaire filmd, et en conformity avec les conditions du contrat de filmage.

Original copies in printed paper covers are filmed beginning with the front cover and ending on the last page with a printed or illustrated impression, or the back cover when appropriate. All other original copies are filmed beginning on the first page with a printed or illustrated impression, and ending on the last page with a printed or illustrated impression.

Les exemplaires originaux dont la couverture en papier est imprimde sont filmds en commenpant par le premier plat et en terminant soit par la dernidre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par le second plat, selon le cas. Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont filmds en commenpant par la

The

premidre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernidre page qui comporte une telle empreinte.

recorded frame on each microfiche contain the symbol —^^ (meaning "CONTINUED "), or the symbol (meaning "END "),

Un des symboles suivants apparaftra sur la dernidre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symboie •-»- signifie "A SUIVRE", le

whichever applies.

symbole

Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed

Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmds d des taux de reduction diffdrents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichd. il est film6 d partir de Tangle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, &n prenant le nombre d'images n6cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants

last

shall

V

in the upper left hand corner, left to and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method:

beginning right

V

illustrent la

1

signifie "FIN".

mdthode.

,-««W.«*-^«««M,^

»

•

••

*

cesiyc,

The

Vengeancfe of

Noel Brassard

^

Tl?/^

of the Acadian Expulsion

By Bliss

Carman

•i<Mm«M)Mi

WJWr"» »« "'» Wi.,

'«'»I

'

..

?:v.

1307=

.

If

I

L. !W»"«

;

To y. H. B. and E.

W. R.

Whejt I was very young and Tou held me in your arms Before that

I

I

could walk at

small^

ally

learned your gentlest charms. \\

When I was just And could nt say

a

little

chapy

a things

Tou used

to

take

And talk

to

me and

me

in

your lap

sing.

i

^^^S

Now

I can make up my own

And go about alone. And hear strange tales Of people not my own

songs

in foreign tongues

;

new alluring strains. Wherever I may go. Are blended with the old refrains Tet

all the

That sound of long ago.

The Vengeance

of

Noel Brassard

YOU Of

say

our

we English

fair

Well, here

Your

like to boast

play and British pluck. 's

a tale for

you who

toast

and wish your friends good luck, This snowy Christmas time. toes

i

'''«^^'?>pip?i"r'^^"

THE VENGEANCE YOU In

take our soft Acadian land

summer

One

for

your thoroughfare;

of the gardens from God's hand,

Orchard and dike, it greets you there A dream of the world's prime.

BUTFrom

winter,

To

when

the

—

snow comes down

the red edges of the

fall.

cover babbling stream and town

With velvet silence like a pall, Can you guess what it means ?

OF NOEL BRASSARD

THE

And

rivers sleep in the

Some

the sun

is

lost;

deep woods now and then

great tree, riving in the frost,

Cracks, and the

Among

;

stillness falls

again

the evergreens.

BUT

one man learned too well who prowls Those wintry barrens choked with snow, And guessed what manner of thing cowls

Its

empty visage from man

so.

Seeing that face too near.

m

t» !«i

WrawKKMw"

««!'

fit

part.

to love.

E

OF NOEL BRASSARD ONE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED BY WILL BRADLEY AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, IN DECEMBER,

MDCCCCXIX, FOR

BLISS

CARMAN

I

23

\]