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Les petits et les grands —
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D'autres frequent la place
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Avec la croix son chere portage —
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Dans la coeurs de tous les elus —
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Sa croix de son coeur — est le gaye —
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Futil au plus bel heritage
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Sans choix, sans ennuie, sans murmure.
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Quand nous en servons aux choix
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Quoique tres amere et tres dure —
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Malgre le sous et la nature
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JUDGE MORRIS' ACCOUNT OF THE ACADIANS, DRAWN UP IN 1753,WITH CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF THE BRITISH SETTLEMENT IN NOVA SCOTIA, 174.9, 50, 53.
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In the first place it must be allowed that the causes which have retarded the settlements have been owing, principally, to the disturbances given by the Indian enemy. The advantage a wild people having no settlement or place of abode, but wandering from place to place in unknown and, therefore, inaccessible woods, is so great that it has hitherto rendered all attempts to surprise them ineffectual;
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