Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-08-03
From the National Gazette.
THE SONG OF THE PRAIRIE.

IOn ny 70 inc STdllles sweet maiden, with me
As green. and as wide, and as wild as the sea
Its bosom Of velvet the summer-winds ride,
And rank grass Il waving in billowy pride: :
The city 3 apnson, too narrow for thee,
Away to the Prairie, 50 boundless and free!
Where the sight is not checkd, till the prairies
| ss and skies, q = $500
In harmony blending, conmingle their dyes.
IN the MEAD play
Away 20 the chase, lovely maiden, away!
bound, bound to thy courser, the bison is near
And list to the tramp Of the light-footed deer.
Let England exnltin her dogs and her chase;
Oh! what's a Kings park to this limitless space
NO offences to leap, and no thickets to turn,
No owner to injure, no fnnow to spurn.
But softly as thine on the carpeted hall.
Is heard the light foot of the caurser to fall:
And close-matted grass no impression receive.
AS lronless hoofs bound aloft from the leaves,
Oh fly to the Prairie, the eagle is nigh;
he gracefully wheels in the cloud-spec sky,
And tlmldly hiding her delicate young,
The prairie-hen bushes her beautiful song.
Oh fly to the Prairie, sweet maiden. with me-.
me vine and the prairie-rose cluster for thee:
And mailing the moon in the prairie-propt sky.
Inc mocklng-bird echoes the katy-did's cry.
Let Mexicans boast oftheir herds & their steeds.
4, Inc nold Pra!re-hunter no shepherd-boy needs;
/ Inc blsons. like clouds, overshadow the place,
And the wild, spotted coursers invite to. tho
chase. 50 3 ~ go :,
The citizen picks at his turtle and fowls.
And stolachless over his fricassce prowls:
We track the Interchangeable rifle Supplies
The food for the board, & thestomacll to prize.
The farmer may yaunt Of his grass and his
grain,---
Z He sows them in labor, and reaps them in pain,
but here the deep soil, no cxertion requires,
Ennchd blythe ashes, and cleared by the fires.
Then fly to the Prairie in wonder, and raze.
AS sweeps Der the grass the magnificent blaze:
The world cannot boast so romantic a sirht.---
a continent flaming, mid oceans Of light.
The woodsnan delights in his trees and his
shade; - - :
But see! there's no sun on the cheek Of his
maid;
His flowers are faded, his blossoms are pale.
And mildew is riding his vapory gale.
Then fly to the Prairie, no bush to obscure,
n marsh e ale, and no ague to cure!
lfansluc Fresh, comes the grass-scented
J.. breeze,
'Unchill'd by the mountain, unbroken by trees.
Sublime, from the north, he dcscends in his
wrath, ss ys8 rs
And scatters tho reeds in his snow-coyered
path;
Or, loaded with incensc, steals in from the west.
AS bees from the prairie-rose, fly to the nest.
Oh fly to the Prairie, for freedom is there.
Love lights not that home with the torch Of
despair;
No wretch to entreat, and no lord to deny,
No gossip to SANDER, no neighbor to pry.
hide, 4
Love leaps, like tho fount from the chrystal
rocks side;
And, strong as its adamant. pure as its spring.
Wave wildly in sunbeams his rose colored WING
PHILADELPHIA. N.
------ $500. ~
Z. AFFECTING MILITARY ADVENTURES
IN FLoRIDA.Thc mind Of the little
public here is much occupied with Ma
Jor Reads expedition to the Withla-
coochec. Both the Major and the Co
vsrnor deserve great credit for reliey-.
ing forty unfortunate young men from
a very perilous situation. You know
that Major M'Lemore (now dead) COM
handed a party to the WithlacoocheeE
for the purpose Of Establishing depot,
which. it was supposed, would be SER
to Gen. Scott 8 army. A block
house was built near lime sink con-
tanning water, and communicating with
the river. Provisions were deposited,
and Captain Holeman was left with a.
bout forty-fve men ia command. The
distance from the block house to the RI
yer was about fifteen yards. BY some
anaccountable neglect the party was a.
or overlooked when the ar
my retrcated, and were often assailed
BY the Indians. M'Lemorc, when he
eft them, promised to return in ten
lays, but these passed away, and many
more, and yet they were E;shoa. ne,~ssss1 !
# the army or assistance from their
friends. The Indians attacked them
nearly every fifth day; sometimes they
aughed at them, tainted them, ridicu-
ed the army, babe them sscome to the
liver and wash their feet;" and IN di-.I
'ecting their fire at the block house,
deridingly cried out, steyes
light! eyes left! port hole shoot q,
occasions silver bullets were
red from the Indian rifles; and With
ombustibles attached "a arrows, tbey,l
ontrived to set The. ,esSn I
, esse , q !' ssa 4
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