Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-01-02
THE BROKEN ARROW, ~

THE BROKEN ARROW. ~
We warriors, who gather the brave to depiore,
And repine for the Chief, We shall witness no more,
Levine Ratchet of fight still unburied remain,
Whilst we Joy in the glory OF him that IS SLAIN.
Unbounded in soul, as unfearing in fight,
Yet mild as the dove, when untempted to imite,
His arm vas ~resistless, his tomahawk true,
And his eye, like the eagles, was lightning TO view.
Eur down in the valley, when ev'ning was still,
heard the deep voice ofthe Wolf ~ on tho hill;
Sand bark" said the Chief, as it echoed beloS,
sTis the voice of Menawe, (S) the cry of my foe!
.sHe comes NOT. the coward, to mingle in fight.
ssWhist the day god can offer one streak OF his light,
Bu, in darkness that emblems his bosom's own hue,
He seeks to perform what he trembles to do!
The Chieftook his rife, unerring IS fate,
His eye glow'd as proud as his bosom was greats
heard the hint strike on the steel, but in vain,
For I heard not the rifle re-echo again!
Co., sigh not away as the coward has done,
The remnant of life Ger the fields we have won,
But a mournful farewell to our fruit.trees, (5) well
leave;
They o'ershadow our fathers, they shelter the brave!
Farther west! farther west! where the Buffalo roves,
And the red deer is found in the valley he loves;
Our hearts shall be glad in the hunt once again,
'Tin the white man shall seek for the lands that re.
main. (6)
FARMER WGSl. LAiluCf WNot. "h-AS SN -"
still leaves a deep lustre abroad in the skies;
Where the hunter may roam and his woman may rove,
And tbs Saiise fgsfret to the wilds that we leave,
To the Cnief, DER whose grave still his warriors mus,
grieve;
He died as a hero, and equalpdby few,
Himself his worst foe, to the white. man too true.
Farther west, father west, it is meet that we fly
Where the red-deer will bound at the glance of an eye;
Yet, lonely the song of oul parting be sung,
For the arrsw is broken, the bow IS unstrung!
OD The Broken .Arrou, p. This term is fig.
u~ra,iyely applied to the Indian Chief, Mackin-
GOSH, whose adherents were The inhabitants Of q
section Of the Greek nation, which bears this
name.
(2) I heard the deep roice of the Wolf on tn.
who shot Macintosh, eAclaiming to him, to
die by the laws he had himself made.
(3) IT'S the roies Of Menaos, the cry Of my 70.
,. This was the Chief, who commanded the
party, about two hundred, who went In pursuit
of Macintosh.
(4) For I heard not the rife rs-echo again, p. 8
This is but partially true. Macintosh did
attempt 4 defence, but his aim, and'not his rifle,
was defective
ts) But a mouynfui fareusR 10 our trui! frees
tpe'a sare, p. 8-rhat their fruit trees, should
seem an object Of regret at parting, when -here
were other, and more powerful motives for
grief, may seem in our eyes absurd; yet | have
good reason for the line. OF the Plum they
are passionately fond. I have ridden for an
tour under one continued orchard, that fringed
the road.
(6) TIL the tchiie man shall seek for the lands
that ~remain-This is literal; l observed to an
old Chief Of the Macintosh party, on reading
10 him the articles Of the late treaty which
was received while I was in the Nation, that he
would find good hunting grounds in the west;
plenty Of buffalo, deer, SC. "Ah!!" said he, "af.
ter a momentary Frightening Of countena nce
At the intelligence; yet when we get good SET
lied there, and the pipe smoke well, whiteman
will want more land" This needs no COM