The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-01-05
ny FRED ID. MCSsEY.


And mingled Its brightlivlng waters with
The lordly Hudson, flowing to the sea-
And nature.by. .the.pretty murmuring stream
Had shed her choicest beauties There
The tiny violet smiled to see its face
Reflected In the glossy water. There
The broad-leafed fern bent down with graceful
sweep,
And kissed the blue wake-robin. Ger the
stream
The climbing roses swung and mong the trees
The grand:old oaks and kingly ,drooping elms,
The cat-bird laughed; and from the swaying
limbs
The golden robinihung his swinging nest;
While mong the fragrant branches, in and out,
The twittering wood-birtls merrily came and
went
The llve-long summer day. Alas! that mid
Such scenes as these a:savage rage should dare
To do such cruel deeds, that, to this day,
The stream laughs lightly downward from the
west,
And bears the fearful name.of lBloody Brook.
An Englishman, one Phillip Brent by naIne,
Had cleared a'little. patch beside the. stream,
And built a small log cabin, strong and neat
And made the inside snug, with tender hands,
And cozy for the ones he loved SO we'll
His fair young English wife and little babe.
Andbera ratbov du,al, n c,y, s,,or, ho,,n,. ,n,,,,bs
She trained the morning ylorics o.er ,ho ,loor
And watched the.home-lika mor,goId hesilo
The rude doorstep sprung. up.-from seeds
brought DER
From England; while he trod the deyious
woods
And sought the sweetest aud the teuderest
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Ana sat beside ms humole cabin door,
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UT shaggy Dehr-sklh ior us iittIe couch;
And, Tor the lily woman, strings ri beads
Ana DIS oil mahy-colored. .wampum. so
They lived at peace with all the savage tribes
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should rise above the enst tho buu,,r,. no,n,s
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ho,n.
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sure
To him who ul,y.d IN, ,r.itor. ,nd ,,lcu
they
Had sworn that they would nc'er betray him.
quick
Within the gloomy woods he disappeared,
And back returned as stealthy us he came.
Then Phillip casped his Mary in his arms.
nd begged her to be strong and of good heart.
So that they might before the break of day
Get to the Hudson, where his little boat
Was hidden by the shore and so escape
A nd reach the settlements that were below.
But when she would have taken from its shelf
The old. worn Bible. and n bundle mode
or precious relies of their English home
Then Phillip quick forbade. knoyy,ng ,on wei,
The weary Journey that awaited Them,
And o'er his shoulder slung his trustv gun
md from its cradle roised the slaenin,, hoha
And elasping IL with tender onxious care
They set their faces to the sombre east
And fled into the darkness But the way
Was long and rough. and often Marry t,.li
A nd rose mn hruisel and iu,., o,,t .,.,'.,,,,,,
Oh;
Anu oieii ihiiiip TOOK her ana her enid,
Ana with his whole world in his Stalwart
arms,
still staggered on the dark, untroddcn path,
In hope the longed-for Hudson they should
reach
Before the b!slk OF day; but soon the cast