The Valley of Wyoming: The Romance of Its History and Its Poetry. Also, Specimens of Indian Eloquence |
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... kindred ; but while she has increased in wealth and material prosperity , the romance of her history closed with the century . The shaft and the big tunnel and the drifts have taken the place of stock- ade and forts and redoubts ; the ...
... kindred ; but while she has increased in wealth and material prosperity , the romance of her history closed with the century . The shaft and the big tunnel and the drifts have taken the place of stock- ade and forts and redoubts ; the ...
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... kindred I have never seen ! We know not other - oceans are between : Yet say ! far friendly hearts from whence we came , Of us does oft remembrance intervene ? My mother sure — my sire a thought may claim ; But Gertrude is to you an ...
... kindred I have never seen ! We know not other - oceans are between : Yet say ! far friendly hearts from whence we came , Of us does oft remembrance intervene ? My mother sure — my sire a thought may claim ; But Gertrude is to you an ...
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... kindred he was sent for o'er the sea ; They tore him from us when but twelve years old , And scarcely for his loss have I been yet consoled ! " XIX . His face the wanderer hid - but could not hide A tear , a smile , upon his cheek that ...
... kindred he was sent for o'er the sea ; They tore him from us when but twelve years old , And scarcely for his loss have I been yet consoled ! " XIX . His face the wanderer hid - but could not hide A tear , a smile , upon his cheek that ...
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... kindred hearts - the blood of British veins- And famine tracks her steps , and pestilential pains . * Alluding to the miseries that attended the American civil war . VII . Yet , ere the storm of death had WYOMING . 95.
... kindred hearts - the blood of British veins- And famine tracks her steps , and pestilential pains . * Alluding to the miseries that attended the American civil war . VII . Yet , ere the storm of death had WYOMING . 95.
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... kindred foe , But peaceful let us seek fair England's strand ! " " Ah , Gertrude ! thy beloved heart , I know , Would feel like mine the stigmatizing brand , Could I forsake the cause of Freedom's holy band ! IX . " But shame - but ...
... kindred foe , But peaceful let us seek fair England's strand ! " " Ah , Gertrude ! thy beloved heart , I know , Would feel like mine the stigmatizing brand , Could I forsake the cause of Freedom's holy band ! IX . " But shame - but ...
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Albert amidst arms bank battle beautiful beaver beneath blood bosom brave brothers Brothers-We calumet canoes chief child Christian Colonel Ewing colony Connecticut council Count Zinzendorf Creek dear death Delawares desolation dreadful e'en Edinburgh Review eloquence eyes father feel fire Five Nations flowers forests Forty Fort Frances Slocum French friends GERTRUDE OF WYOMING Gertrude's governor Grangula hand hath head heard heart heaven History of Wyoming Indian kindred land light little Frances lived Logan look mother mountains mournful Nanticoke o'er Oneida peace Pennsylvania pirogue plain Plymouth Company poem poet possession ravelin remains river romance round savage scene Senecas sent settlement Shawanese side sire sister Six Nations song soul speech Spirit stoicism story Susquehanna sweet tears thee thou town tree of peace trees tribe valley Waldegrave Waldegrave's warriors wild wilderness Wilkes-Barre women woods Yonnondio Zinzendorf
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Page 24 - For all these reasons we charge you to remove instantly, we don't give you the liberty to think about it. You are women.
Page 151 - Brother, continue to listen. You say that you are sent! to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach we shall be unhappy hereafter.
Page 77 - As monumental bronze unchanged his look : A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook : Train'd from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook Impassive — fearing but the shame of fear — A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.
Page 110 - And by my side, in battle true, A thousand warriors drew the shaft? Ah ! there in desolation cold The desert serpent dwells alone, Where grass o'ergrows each mouldering bone, And stones themselves to ruin grown, Like me, are death-like old : Then seek we not their camp — for there The silence dwells of my despair.
Page 151 - Brother, we do not understand these things; we are told that your religion was given to your forefathers, and has been handed down from father to son. We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us, their children.
Page 148 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was* ray love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 151 - Spirit agreeably to his mind, and if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter; you say that you are right, and we are lost; how do we know this to be true? We understand that your religion is written in a book...
Page 150 - The white people had now found our country. Tidings were carried back, and more came amongst us. Yet we did not fear them. We took them to be friends. They called us brothers. We believed them, and gave them a larger seat. At length their numbers had greatly increased. They wanted more land; they wanted our country. Our eyes were opened, and our minds became uneasy. Wars took place. Indians were hired to fight against Indians, and many of our people were destroyed.
Page 146 - ... with its branches. I assure you, in the name of the Five Nations, that our warriors shall dance to the calumet of peace under its leaves, and shall remain quiet on their mats, and...
Page 148 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully...