The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-19
WYOMING.
From the SUNNI. of campbelrs Ledge

From the Summit Of Gampbelrs Ledge.
For The Tribune.
wyoming, thou art beautiful, indeed:
And fairest OF fair valleys In our cline;
Thy woodland hill. thy river, fiowery mead
And cultivated farms-thy cliffs sublime:
And all the gardened splendOr art can give;
And all the rural beauty thrift bestows,
Are thine, historic vale, and thine to live,
While native song-birds sing and zephyr
blows.
High on thy grandest cliff. while Dryads
heed,
Here. Oh this cliff-where now | stand this
morn.
scene
The fiowery perfume on the breezes borne,
And all the varied tints of natures green
Please the refined senses. stir the soul,
Exalts my mind and heart to heaven
above;
For 50 delightful is the charming whole,
i feel that heaven alone Is truly love.
Empyrean scenes IN Nature we may md,
II only sought with an empyreal mind.
Below. there grow the chestnut, oak and
pine,
The ash the alder, and the blooming bay
The odoriferous hawthorne, clinging vine,
And hazel groves extending far away;
While Ger broad SusQuehanna' placid
stream
Great circllng Goshawks with their
shadows play;
Venting their joy in many piercing
scream,
Till birds hide near their nests in great
dismay.
An idle boy Tolls in his rustic keel.
Watching his lines with true Waltonian
zeal.
Wyoming. thou art very fair to see
At early morn. when June's contiguous
CLOVIS OH the distant spires of Wilkes
Barre.
And lifts the fleecy mist from pond and
Chases the shadows down thy mountains S
side.
And lights UP towns and villages be-
tween:
Shimmers aslant thy noble rivers tide,
Enwraps all nature in resplendent sheen.
Then thy huge towers and piles of anthra-
cite,
Glisten and sparkle in the radiant light.
o, fertile vale of loved Ma-wau-wa-mie,'
No wonder twas the noble Delaware
Contended with the ardent Shawannse
For hunting grounds so truly rich and
fair.
Nor could the contest end. or cen abate,
So fierce their battles and their passions
grew;
TIL one the other must exterminate--
For cen papoose and squaw the rivals
slew:
But. white men came In search Of land and
food
Then. TO possess thee, shed each others
blood!
Fen when possession gave the settler aim,
And lasting peace seemed surely then at
hand.
The Tory. with his Indian allies. came
And devastated all thy fruitful land.
They slew the master, they slew the hired;
The maid and matron In their cot they
slew;
The barn, the haggard. and the cot they
fired,
And done all else their evils hands could
do.
Their blood. thy latest owners. then out
pour
For thee, thou natures fatal Kohinoor!
Majestic cllff upon whose verdant crest
stand, my heart filled with poetic fire;
Parnassus. by the gods and muses. bless'd.
More serious thoughts In man could not
inspire.
"a. Al
head,
Oft watched the movements Of his racial
foe,
While poisoned arrows from his bowstriny
sped.
Winged silent death to foemen far below.
The hunted settler, filed with grief and
fear,
Has often seen his cottage burn from here!
II the departed shades OF ancient sires
The dear fruition of their hopes might
see;
Could they observe the vast Promethean
Their hands first lighted for postertty--
Could they but linyer in our freedoms
light,
The progress of one century perceive:
Behold the dexterous--hear the erudite,
The past alone would not support belief;
Well might those spirits feel exultaht
pride.
That not In vain their bodies lived and
died. John NJ. Coyne.
Note to fifth csnto: sMa-wau-wa-mie
was the original Indian name, and Its sue
cesslve changes 20 Wanwamie, Wiwam!e,
Wlomle, Wyoming. all have an affinit.ve
sound (see Chapman History OF wyo-
ming. lsSo)