Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-07-03

Poetry.


THE INDIANS ANATHEMA.
"xf 80, ,,;o ~ said an Indian chief, when
.,,oos,a,sa ~ remove beyond The Rocky NOUN
aims. that he might be free from the iuoe 49,
sions Of the white nam = ~ YAM ns ~
o.,nta;n nor flood can stay the march OF tne
scs,Is ssho have usurped the dominions OF the
"a man they will follow, and prosecute, and
s-s,roy him until the shrek Of the last OF the In
Sian race shah mingle with the roar Of the Pa
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They pointed far to the setting sun,
AS he sank in his splendor down,
And they vainly plead with the lingering one,
Till his brow wore an angry frown
:. obaght Is the land Of the rising day,
Dark son Of the lonely wood,
But brighter the land Of bis closing lay,
Audit teens with its treasured good.
wide-wide are the boundless hunting grounds,
When the rock-crowned hills are DER,
Aud the tall trees wave, and the wild deer bounds
And the pale face comes no more.
Then haste thee, chief, 10 that sunny shore;
Yes, haste with thy warriors there, 81
Where the white mans voice shall threat no more,
Nor claim Of thy joys STARE" Y.
But he drew his form to its MODEST height, s e
That SON of the dauntless Free - IS
And his dark eye glanced with kindling hight,
And whitening agony - So. y
ellis vain, . he cried with laundering tone,
q o shame to the white mans faces--..- 4. 4
IT'S vain retreat TO thoseregions lone,
= Woe, woe to the Indians race. =.
i'Ye bound o'erths rocks and The swelling streams
Yelesp DER the mountains high, --...s.-,S {.
We stride from the land Of the suns young beams
To the realm where they fade and die. -
We viii 90 no more where the,sun declines:
We will die where our kindred died:
We viii guard their dust and their sacred shrines
Till we sleep by theiupouldering side.
"Yet Aeeting span-and our Fathers eye,
Though he sinks TO his sumbering now,
Shall weaken with woe in the eastern sky,
And cloud on his mournfui brow. -.
He will search from morn to the starless night,
For the tribes Of his children true:
He will vaiDlys seek for the councii,light, +
All Zone shall It's fame renew !..ts- ~
% He will call for the men of the sounding bow
He win ask ofSthe mountains--s where
He will light up the7cayes, and will search the1
But in vain shall he seek them there.
Then sound shall come TO the mortal ear,
Like the shrek which the red man gave, +
When he fed to the gulf like hunted deer
And lsaped to his roaring grave.
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-"'Tis voice that rings from the western mai
Where our slaughtered remnant are s +.
'Tis. the cry: OF people spoiled and slain,
s IT'S their deep Anathema. sssss r
The pale men walked through the goody land
Where our freeborn sires were nursed. =
And proud mid the rocks and the, wild woo
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y BE the soil to the white man cursed Y
-" Let the blade he rears for his children's bres
Be nipped in is greenest PRIME, ~
Let famine stalk with her direst tread,
- IT'S her. just destroyiDgtim ~
:, Let the hearts Of his foes wax 6ercely bold.
And strength to their arms Sc given: u. :
Lethis babes be slain ON his hesrth-stone co
or to hopeless bondage driven! t-S
"'Ah then let him think of the broken yO
And the oath 50 falsely sworn,
Let Il wiring his soul-let it brand his brow,
. Tilf his heart Of its pride be shorn -
And then let him think Of the red. mans doom
As he feels the deadly thrusty .isssf "a.
And down let him sink tosa nameless tomb,
Accused in theyoiceless dust 1 , : ~
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