W. Wilfred Campbell - To the Ottawa lyrics

Out of the northern wastes, lands of winter and d**h, Regions of ruin and age, spaces of solitude lost; You wash and thunder and sweep, And dream and sparkle and creep, Turbulent, luminous, large, Scion of thunder and frost. Down past woodland and waste, lone as the haunting of even, Of shrivelled and wind-moaning night when Winter hath wizened the world; Down past hamlet and town By marshes, by forests that frown, Brimming their desolate banks, Your tides to the ocean are hurled.