Old Trails on the Niagara FrontierBurrows Brothers, 1903 - 270 strani |
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Stran 226 - And over fields where scatter'd hamlets rose, In barren, solitary pomp repose ? Have we not seen, at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling, long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid. Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound...
Stran 242 - THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from His hollow hand, And hung His bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, The sound of many waters ; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks.
Stran 70 - Niagara, and were one of those •"A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his Family ; Who were surprised by the Indians, and. taken from their Farms, on the Frontiers of Pennsylvania, In the Spring, 1780.
Stran 236 - The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of every glorious theme, In distant lands now waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame. In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true: In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry...
Stran 128 - It is agreed that it shall at all times be free to His Majesty's subjects, and to the citizens of the United States, and also to the Indians dwelling on either side of the said boundary line, freely to pass and repass by land or inland navigation, into the respective territories and countries of the two parties, on the continent of America...
Stran 226 - Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways; Where beasts with man divided empire claim, And the brown Indian marks with murd'rous aim ; There, while above .the giddy tempest flies, And all around distressful yells arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine.
Stran 173 - YE gentlemen and ladies fair, Who grace this famous city, Just listen if you've time to spare, While I rehearse a ditty; And for the opportunity Conceive yourselves quite lucky, For 'tis not often that you see A hunter from Kentucky. Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky!
Stran 65 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Stran 173 - We are a hardy free-born race, Each man to fear a stranger, Whate'er the game, we join in chase, Despising toil and danger; And if a daring foe annoys, Whate'er his strength and forces, We'll show him that Kentucky boys Are "alligator horses.
Stran 88 - There, were congregated the leaders and chiefs of those bands of murderers and miscreants, that carried death and destruction into the remote American settlements. There, civilized Europe revelled with savage America ; and ladies of education and refinement mingled in the society of those whose only distinction was to wield the bloody tomahawk and scalping, knife.