Kunnoo Sperits and OthersNeale Company, 1900 - 174 páginas |
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Página 81 - THEY made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,* Where, all night long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. " And her firefly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree, "When the footstep of Death is near.
Página 81 - Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before. And when on the earth he sunk to sleep, If slumber his eyelids knew, He lay where the deadly vine doth weep Its venomous tear, and nightly steep The flesh with blistering dew...
Página 82 - Far he followed the meteor spark, The wind was high and the clouds were dark, And the boat returned no more. But oft from the Indian hunter's camp, This lover and maid so true Are seen at the hour of midnight damp, To cross the Lake by a fire-fly lamp, And paddle their white canoe ! A CANADIAN BOAT-SONG.
Página 82 - And the boat returned no more. But oft, from the Indian hunter's camp This lover and maid so true Are seen at the hour of midnight damp. To cross the Lake by a fire-fly lamp. And paddle their white canoe ! MARCHIONESS DOWAGER OF DONEGALL.
Página 82 - Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before. And when on the earth he sunk to sleep, If slumber his eyelids knew, He lay, where the deadly vine doth weep Its venomous tear and nightly steep The flesh with blistering dew: And near him the she-wolf stirr'd the brake, And the copper-snake breathed in his ear, 'Till he starting cried, from his dream awake,
Página 81 - I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree, When the footstep of Death is near." Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before.
Página x - Africau servitor was of the most consoling character. He preached the gospel of contentment, perhaps as divine as any other principle of the moral law, comforting in this manner those who railed against their limitations : "You 'bleeged ter be satusfied wid w'at you's got. Nobody hain't got ebbyt'ing in dis worl'.
Página xiv - I have tried to portray tlieir quaint and homely humor, their strange exaltation of mind and temperament, their pathetic and sympathetic natures, their superstitions and sentiments, their strange characteristics.
Página xviii - There will yet linger only the silent printed form to convey to the future some idea of the olden dialect...