The Valley of Wyoming: The Romance of Its History and Its Poetry. Also, Specimens of Indian EloquenceRobert H. Johnston & Company, 1866 - 153 páginas |
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... dreadful conflict took place between the Shaw- anese in their canoes and the Delawares on the bank . At length , after great numbers had been killed , the Shawanese effected a landing , and a battle took place about a mile below ...
... dreadful conflict took place between the Shaw- anese in their canoes and the Delawares on the bank . At length , after great numbers had been killed , the Shawanese effected a landing , and a battle took place about a mile below ...
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... dreadful circumstance shall note , That fills pale Gertrude's thoughts , and nightly dreams ? Dismal to her the forge of battle gleams Portentous light ! and music's voice is dumb ; Save where the fife its shrill reveillé screams , Or ...
... dreadful circumstance shall note , That fills pale Gertrude's thoughts , and nightly dreams ? Dismal to her the forge of battle gleams Portentous light ! and music's voice is dumb ; Save where the fife its shrill reveillé screams , Or ...
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... But all was now in vain ; Their little host - by far the most— Was by those Indians slain . 10. And as they fly , for quarters cry ; Oh hear indulgent Heaven ! WYOMING . Hard to relate their dreadful fate , No WYOMING . 117.
... But all was now in vain ; Their little host - by far the most— Was by those Indians slain . 10. And as they fly , for quarters cry ; Oh hear indulgent Heaven ! WYOMING . Hard to relate their dreadful fate , No WYOMING . 117.
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... dreadful fate , No quarters must be given . II . With bitter cries and mournful sighs They seek some safe retreat , Run here and there , they know not where , Till awful death they meet . 12. Their piercing cries salute the skies— Mercy ...
... dreadful fate , No quarters must be given . II . With bitter cries and mournful sighs They seek some safe retreat , Run here and there , they know not where , Till awful death they meet . 12. Their piercing cries salute the skies— Mercy ...
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... dreadful ' tis to tell , Where they must fry , and burn and die , While cursed Indians yell . 18. Nor son , nor sire , these tigers spare , - The youth , and hoary head , Were by those monsters murdered there , And numbered with the ...
... dreadful ' tis to tell , Where they must fry , and burn and die , While cursed Indians yell . 18. Nor son , nor sire , these tigers spare , - The youth , and hoary head , Were by those monsters murdered there , And numbered with the ...
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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's 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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Página 150 - 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 my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 151 - 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 glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 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.
Página 79 - 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.
Página 112 - 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.
Página 153 - 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...
Página 153 - Brother, continue to listen. You say 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. You say that you are right, and we are lost ; how do we know this to be true ? We understand that your religion...
Página 152 - 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.
Página 151 - Friend and brother, it was the will of the Great Spirit that we should meet together this day. He orders all things, and he has given us a fine day for our council. He has taken his garment from before the sun, and caused it to shine with brightness upon us ; our eyes are opened, that we see clearly ; our ears are unstopped, that we have been able to hear distinctly the words...