New England Reflections (Cont.): The Platypus Travels Part XXXV

View of the Housatonic River from Indian Wells State Park.  We're here.

And as I pondered

By the pilgrim path

So many feet had trod,

Far away,

The daughters of the river god

Still sang:

Wei la lei
Wei la lei

I who have known Shepaug, and Pomperaug, Naugatuk,
I catch the good pastor's tears,
For his daughter's
Gone
To Kahnawake,

To La Prairie,
And will not return.

Wei wei la
Wei wei la la

I knew the little mill town when the
Robber baron smiled
He tried to sway me
Captain of industry
But I was a good girl
But I was a good girl

Wei la la
Wei la

O daughters of the river,

Tell me

For you know

And only

the rumor

Reaches me

In Babylon

In La Prarie:

Are the leaves still burning,

Burning,

              Burning,

Tell me, are the leaves still burning?

Can they teach me how to burn?