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Poems of Places Oceana 1 V.; England 4; Scotland 3 V
Poems of Places Oceana 1 V England 4 Scotland 3 V Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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: That this same troubled and mingled flow Shall one day clear as the crystal be, After it dies in the deep, far sea. I have watched it long, with an aching br... more »ow, Bending above it, and wonder now If the river, so full of grime and strife, May not be an emblem of human lii'e, And if many a soul that has wandered and toiled, All corrupted and gross and soiled, At the end may not calmly glide Into that last great swallowing tide, And clear and pure as the crystal be, After it dies in that deep, far sea. William Osborn Stoddard. Big Horn, the River, Montana Ter. THE REVENGE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE. IN that desolate land and lone Where the Big Horn and Yellowstone Roar down their mountain path, By their fires the Sioux chiefs Muttered their woes and griefs, And the menace of their wrath. " Revenge ! " cried Rain-in-the-Face ; " Revenge upon all the race Of the White Chief with vellow hair!" And the mountains dark and high From their crags re-echoed the cry Of his anger and despair. In the meadow, spreading wide By woodland and river-side The Indian village stood; All was silent as a dream, Save the rushing of the stream And the blue-jay in the wood. In his war-paint and his beads, Like a bison among the reeds, In ambush the Sitting Bull Lay with three thousand braves Crouched in the clefts and caves, Savage, unmerciful! Into the fatal snare The White Chief with yellow hair, And his three hundred men, Dashed headlong, sword in hand ; But of that gallant band Not one returned again. The sndden darkness of death Overwhelmed them, like the breath A nl smoke of a furnace of fire; By tha river's bank, and between The rocks of the ravine, They lay in their bbody attire. But the foemen fled in the night, And...« less