Greyslaer Author:Charles Fenno Hoffman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK FIRST. THE BORDER RISING. " Why, peers of England, We'll lead 'em on courageously. I read A triumph over tyranny upon Their several foreheads." Ford. ... more » " 'Tis a generous mind That led his disposition to the war; For gentle love and noble courage are So near allied, that one begets another." Cyril Tourneub. " This lady in the blossom of my youth, When my first fires knew no adulterate incense, Nor I no way to flatter bnt my fondness, In the best language my true tongue could utter, And all the broken sighs my sick heart lend me, I sued and served. Long did I love this lady." Massinqer. WILLIAM DUER, OF OSWEOO, - THESE VOLUMES AKE INSCEIBED BY EIS KARLY FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. chapter{Section 4ORE YSL AE R; A ROMANCE OF THE MOHAWK. BOOK FIRST. CHAPTER I. FOREST HAUNTS AND SYLVAN COMPANY. "Away, away, to forest glades, Fly, fly with me the haunts of men, I would not give my sunlit glades, My talking stream, and silent glen, For all the pageantry of slaves, Their fettered lives and trampled graves." The Indian, by J. Lawrence. OtR story opens amid the depths of an American forest. It was midsummer; the bright green of June had departed from lea and meadow, and the brooks, even where their course lay through some grassy orchard, half sheltered by the spreading fruit-trees, had .shrunk and dwindled in their channels ; but here, amid the dank shadows of primeval woods, their currents still danced along with all the freshness of springtime. Here, too, the shrubs upon their banks still wore the delicate tints of early summer; for the canopy of dense foliage above them shut out the scorching heat. The birds of song, which, in the opening and closing year, are seldom heard in our deep forests, had now left the clearings, which t...« less