New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-11
ON-NO-LEE.
r. LEcENp OF THE cAwApIcE.

A BEAUTIFUL lake is the Canadice,
And Wild fowl dream on iIe breast unsecured;
Thy golden brooch, OF costly price,
Is dim with its radiant wave compared.
Edged by abroad aud siivery belt
OF pebbles bright, and glitteriag sand,
The waters into music met
When breaking on tne strand;
And It's gilmineTiDg sheet OF azure lies
Unve1ed by loud and warning blast,
For green old hills, thai found 4; = riss
feuco Tho fair piirrvr Of the SKIES
From storras that journey past.
Abeauiiiul lake is the Caoadice,
And warnings from It's bosom clear
GO up by moonlight, and entce
The hunter TO pause and hear.
OH nouraful ere The tones and lew,
Like the IN, sue voice Of the whip pc-wi',
When evuniog winds through The forest blow,
AID other bros are still.
Ear never heard a ssdder suan,
In the tiu,e OF frost and falling leaves,
When brown and naked woods complain,
And The brook, late fed by summer ram,
For persisted yerduIe greves.
beautiful lake is the Capadice,
And tribesneu dwelt on its banks OF yors,
Bu, an hundred wears have vanished thrice
Since heayth-stones smoked upon tho shore:
The Munsee dreamed not OF Il Zoe;
Unstrung were The warriors arm and brow;
And couched on skies, he little thought
The fall OF his natlon was Ut MAUI
His ear no rattle OF serpent caught,
No gliding ghost warning brought
While came the Mengwe band.
Too lGte-too late 10 fgpt or ny
Was rang the knell OF his ancient power;
His lin pca!ed forth no rallyipg cry,
From siumber he only woke TO dis
Al the solemn midnight hour.
In gore his househoid-gods were drenched,
His altar fires in gore were qusncheo;
frba y,o;l IF hnhe " blood was CnOKeO,
In blood his burial-plece was soaked,
And. lishting uo the midnight-heaven,
TO fame were The huts OF his people gwen.
pboygb tall oaks fell in their lingly pride,
Ths conoueror saved trembling Leaf;
OF that little clan all darkly dyed
Save On.no-lee, the cherished bride
or their brave but luckless chief.
Morn dawned upon a frigh'fui scena-
Tho Canadico in sunshine lay;
But blood was on its margin green-
A tribe was swept away.
IN the blackened site Of a town destroyed,
The raven a goodly meal enjoyed,
Ard the wolf called forth her wheiPs, 10 sheip
Tha, banquet red, from her gloomy lar.
Morn downed-and on their homeward track
The Mepewe, flushed with conquest, fped'
And, far. famed leader, Mic-Ri-nac,
That band of spoilers led.
To the red belt, his waist around,
The hairless On-co-iee was bound;
SCARED from the death-deom OF her race,
The pomp Of his return 10 grace,
Ara live the slave Of ore who bore
The scalp Of her fallen Sycamore.
A, noon. to snatch high, repasf,
The marty halted in the shade;
bur 0n.So-lee broke rot her tasf'
And in tbs dust, with loath'ng cast
The food before her laid,
Ost Woman wronsed, within her so9t
II. e - a.. Oh nm TINT mOCxS Ccuuoit
W., ~. rnthlsss fends, TO whom she owes
The fsarfu, sum of her blasting woes
Ia Welded up her prey by fa1e'
AID the dagger is nigh to second hate.
M;c.k;nac sat on fallen tree'
And Of sayory mo-ke-hike partooS,
And by his side was On-no-lee,
Survivor of the butchery'
Who eyed his knife with an eager .oU .,bs5
Round the haft her fingers nSn.y 80
rhr eli,tering weapon she unshee'eeo,
One we,l.aimed blow, and she was nce'
Another,-aod the purple noe IA.
Gushed from her savage captof sioe
Who leapsd like q wounded stag, ana oiea'
Thunder, without a cloud in sight,,
Or whisper Of warning on the gase,
Copn NOT have reused more wild afiiSht'
Amid hi. braves. Than deed OF might
Wrought by hand so ifail
En-. they recovered from the snocR
Fed On-no lee like hunted deer
Glen, stream and interposing rock
Barred not her swift career.
A yigor never felt before,
The form of the fugitive upbore,
Ane to her active foot gave Wig, eo,,ovy;np.
Though Heet were the b!ood-hounds ioiio""e'
10 vain tbs foremost runner straioed ho.
ana arrows launched from has twansios wv
For On.no-lee exuiiing, gined
Achf, beyond the reach OF foe'
mat beetled over the lake below.
Last Of her race. with desperate eye vad.
On the r,,ined home Of her Tribe she gazea'
Waved her averaging arm on high
iaunted her bafied enemy,
And ringing scream Of triumph raisea-
sse, worrying ours .--go back, 80 pscA'
Rac snsl- 49, g., Mauewa smoke