Friday, September 19, 2025

CANISTEO

 Canisteo 

Hear the rushing, splashing Canisteo
Flowing through the morning 
blushes; 
Swaying branches, nodding ferns and 
flowers, 
Fringe its banks with beaufy 
fluhes; 
Arching skys and forest shadows 
mirrored 
In its tranquil rock bound restings;
Songs of birds and bees in clover hum- 
ming, 
Lend their charms to river's fret tings. 


Noisy rapids whitened ruffles making
O'er stony beds in crystal purlings;
Sprays that gather up the tinted sun-
beams 
Through the trees on fleecy curl- 
ings, 
Speeding on its breast of sheen  and 
silver 
Leaves of brown and gold are drift-
ing. 
Dropping shadows down in lulling
waters 
Where the whitened sands lie glis-
tening. 


Onward ever onward river flowing, 
Long the roadside, curving bending; 
Through the vale and clover scented 
meadows, 
Round the craig and hillside ending; 
By the gloomy forest echoes making, 
Through glens its blackened waters 
dashing 
By the haunts of beasts and cozy 
dwelling 
River speeds its wayward splash-
ings.


Calm and tempest, lulls and seathing
rushes, 
Tints and shadows, swerves and 
purlings 
Changes bring on breast of white and 
silver, 
Adding charms to river's twirlings,
Life on wing and foot its course at-
tending,
Darting fish its waters flecking.
These thy wonderous charms dear  Canisteo, 
These the jewels in thy settings. 

By J Chubbuck  

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL HYMN WAS PRINTED IN THE ARTICLE PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AMERICAN COOPERATIVE JOURNAL NOVEMBER 1921

THE ORIGINAL HYMN WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PUBLISHED IN  THE YEAR 1921, MONTH OF NOVEMBER. 

THE HYMN IS THE TRADITIONAL RECITATION AND THE MOTION SONG- THE TRADITIONAL HYMN OF THE FARMERS AND THE NATIVE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE UNITED STATES OF  AMERICA OF THE NORTH DAKOTA STATE- YEAR 1921.