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 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.

Photo courtesy

 Canisteo Times

 It is the southern part of the community, rather than the northern section shown, that gives Canisteo NY its cognomen The Village Of Trees. Canisteo lies four miles east of Hornell on the Erie which travels along the willow-lined Canisteo River, horizontally across the top of the picture, below the white line, which is the highway to Adrian. The Erie station, freight house and crossing are out of the picture at upper left, where the diagonal street (Depot Street) intersects the railroad. In this neighborhood too are the community's pride the Canisteo Central School of 1000 pupils. the 40 year old Canisteo Silk Co, and the Newark Milk & Cream Co 13. 

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

References

1.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. 
2. CANISTEO TIMES
3. Erie Railroad Magazine April 1948