Nipigon's Sleeping Beauty a poem by E.C. Everett

 

NIPIGON’S SLEEPING BEAUTY

The Sleeping Beauty has now been found,

Jist West of Nipigon on higher ground,

In beauty there she lies defiant,

A partner of the Sleeping Giant.

She faces toward the rising sun,

And guards the vallies, till day is done,

A micro-wave tower shines through the night,

To mark the place of her early flight.

In summer she has a coat of green,

From Everettville she can be seen,

In Winter she has a coat so white,

She sleeps serenely through the night.

She flashes her lightning whip at will,

Her roars of Thunder shake every hill,

She kicks up a storm but cannot escape,

From the Red Rock Hill to Thunder Cape.

This “Queen of the North” will awaken some day,

From the beautiful mountain towering Nipigon Bay,

And will turn back again to her place as before,

To her slumbering partner, On Thunder Bay Shore.

E.C. Everett  Nipigon Ontario