The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-03
And Scott said :

Campbell has also borrowed an image and
copied line. Freneau said:
BY midnight moons DER moistenlng dews,
In yestmcuts of the chase arTayed,
The hunter stll the deer pursues
The hunter and the deer-a shade
And Campbell said
Now on the grass-green turf he sits,
His tasseled horn beside him laid
Now Ger the hills in chase he fits,
The hunter and the deer-a shade.
But Freneau was scholar as well as a
patriot and poet, and some of his transla-
tions and limitations are not surpassed for fl
deity and felicity by any other. And l
doubt if any of the various poets who have
tried their hands at an English poetical rem
dering of the 18TH Psalm have surpassed in
sweetness and energy the effort of Freneau.
Among his longer poems are some of sus-
tained poetical power. | notice "The Poet
ical History of the Prophet Jonah y "The
House of night )" "The Jamaica Funeral :"
"The Beauties Of Santa Cruz" and for a
specimen of his satirical and descriptive
powers take the following from Sketches OF
American History"
Twelve years after this, some scores Of Dlssenters
To the nOrthernmOst district came, seeking adven-
lures;
outdono by the bishops, those great fagot fighters
They left them to hell with their cassocks and
mltres.
Thus banlshed forever, and leaving the sod,
The first land they saw was the pitch OF Cape Cod
| Where, famishcd with hunger and quaking with
cold,
/ M
tine old
They were, without doubt delightful collection;
Some came to be rid OF stuarts direction, =
| Some sailed to a view to dominion and riches
| Some to pray without book, and a few to hang
| witches.
| Some came on the Indians to shed new light,
Convinced long before that their own must be right
And that all who had died in the centuries past
| On the Devils lee-shore were cternally cast
| These exiles were cast in a whimsical mould
And were awed by their priests, like the Hebrews Of
| old;
Disdained all pretense to testing and laughter,
And sighed their lives through TO be happy hereaf-
| ter.
| on crown immaterlal their hearts were intent,
| They looked towards Zion wherever they went,
Did all things in hope OF future reward,
| And worryd manknd-for the sake OF the Lord
Who has not laughed over the vagares
and wit and humor of "Mr Robert Slender, of
Philadelphia Stocking weaver);" and who
in the olden times could not repeat "The
Political Balance" in which, speaking of
George III, he says:
His reign shall be famous for multiplication,
The sire and king Of whclp generation;
| But such is the will and the purpose OF fate,
For each child he begets he shall forfeit State,
Philip Freneau was born in the city of
New York, January ?, 1862, and died near
Monmouth, n j., December IS, 1882. The
first collection of his poems was published
in Philadelphia, in 17S6, by Francis Bailey
and that volume was republshed in London
in 1861, by John Russell Smith In l7SS q
second volume, containing essays, reviews
and poems, was publsed by Francis Bailey
in 1873 an edition was printed by Freneau
himself, at Monmouth, n. j. In 1909
Lydia r. Bailey, widow of Francis Bailey
published an edition, in two volumes, and
in 1915 Longworth issued an edition, in two
volumes, in New York. In 1865 Mr. Evert
A. Duyckinck edited and Middleton pub
lished volume Of Freneau's "Poems Relat.
, ing to the American Revolution" In his
poem "On the Departure of the British from
Charleston" the poet, speaking of the brave
men who fell in the struggles to free tht
State, said
| But fame Is theirs-and future days
on pilliard brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell-when cold neglect Is dead
"These for their country fought and bledw
Jeffrey said of Freneau that the time woul,
come when his poetry, like that of Hudibras
, would command a commentator like Grey
, and Scott said that the verses on the battl
of Eutaw were as fine as anything of tn
, kind in the language. | believe the tim
| has come for that commentator 1t is NOR
q than Que hundred years since Frencau wrot
! and published his first poems; and, as pre-
eminently the poet of the Revolution, he
= entitled to and demands a Centennial ed
- ton of his works. The ability aud apprec
|, alton displayed by Mr., Duyckinck in Il
5 volume edited by him establishes his rigl
It and makes it his duty to edit and anota
the whole works, know of no one bett
It acquainted with the early literature of Anne
C lea, and the would be to him labor of lov
&c Not storied urn, nor animated bust, pillarC
o brass would so fifty commemorate the nam
IS and deeds of our Centennial heroes as
"A superb Centennial edition of the works
\. Philip Freneau.
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