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The poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman (1873)
The poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1873 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: THE HUNTER TO HIS MISTRESS. 33 I think but of the Pine aloft, Which first will proudly hail its beaming ! And, wasted thus, a joy it is To know my Pine,... more »—refresh'd and bright, While I distill'd each dewy kiss— Is worthy of all glorious light! The Western Hunter To His Mistress. WEND, love, with me, to the deep woods wend, Where far in the forest the wild flowers keep, Where no watching eye shall over us bend, Save the blossoms that into thy bower may peep. Thou shalt gather from buds of the oriole's hue, Whose flaming wings round our pathway flit, From the saffron orchis and lupin blue, And those like the foam on my courser's bit. One steed and one saddle us both shall bear, One hand of each on the bridle meet; And beneath the wrist that entwines me there, An answering pulse from my heart shall beat. I will sing thee many a joyous lay, As we chase the deer by the blue lake-side, While the winds that over the prairie play Shall fan the cheek of my woodland bride. Our home shall be by the cool, bright streams, Where the beaver chooses her safe retreat, And our hearth shall smile like the sun's warm gleams Through the branches around our lodge that meet. Then wend with me, to the deep woods wend, Where far in the forest the wild flowers keep, Where no watching eye shall over us bend, Save the blossoms that into thy bower may peep. A Frontier Incident. THE Indian-whoop is heard without, Within the Indian arrow lies; There's horror in that fiendish shout, There's death where'er that arrow flies. Two trembling women there alone, Alone to guard a feeble child ; What shield, O God ! is round them thrown Amid that scene of peril wild ? Thy Book upon the table there Reveals at once from whence could flow The st...« less