SEAFOAM, NOVA SCOTIA poem

Seafoam, Nova Scotia

Fix your gaze upon the East
oh men of Scotland

memories as glowing sunrises
of remembrance, buried passions
resting in peaceful slumber on
a lonely hill
overlooking Northumberland Strait-

McDonald, native of Argyle, Shire
parish of Appin, died in 1838
"I come at Thy command
I give my spirit of Thy hand.
"Colquhon in 1850 and Henderson too,
McLeod in 1865, Parish of Kildonan
Melville in 1853, from Perthshire
and Campbell, with sons Alexander and
Murray-

Pause upon the swelling tide,
search northward, enjoy a surge of pride

this land is still your kin
who came after as builders, and
dreamers and history-makers, you
spawned them and they remember...

Red sand forms along the beach,
winds tear at hill's lofty retreat
and a baby blue sky provides a
warming blanket for the land

your sons and their sons are
true brothers of the soil.

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