response to the Blue Juniata Author:Cyrus Cort 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: Ye who reside in tranquil ease Amid the scenes of prosperous peace, Where once was heard the savage yell, From every hill and every dell ; Thou race of German... more »-Swiss and Scot, Whose sires here met of yore and fought The savage host and bravely won The gory fight of Bushy Run, Forget not 'mid the flight of years The toils and trials of Pioneers. March 5, 1961. THE MASSACREiOF SCHOOLMAS TER ENOCH BROWN AND TEN SCHOLARS. July 26, 1764. 'ITH anguish sore and bitter woe, The hearts of Konoshick are wrung, Alas ! the cruel Indian foe Has slain the tender and the young. As Rachel wept in Judah's land O'er infants slain by tyrant king, So Antrim wails her martyr band, Her homes with lamentations ring. See Note C Appendix. Oneof the old ways of spelling Conococheaime. As heroes fall, at duty's post, So fell the master and his school, A sacrifice, a holocaust, To border life and Quaker rule. The place is holy where they died, In Christian faith and childhood pure, And where they laid them side by side, In common grave and sepulture. And ye, who now in safety dwell, In Cumberland's enchanting vale, Revere the spot and mark it well, Where long was heard the mother's wail. For not in vain the martyrs die, Their death brings life to pioneers, Who gain the burden of their cry, Relief denied in former years. Bouquet has sought the tiger's lair With trusty lion-hearted men; Kind Heaven grants the settlers' prayer, The Dove of Peace returns again — The tomahawk and scalping knife, Long red with Anglo-Saxon gore, The symbols dire of savage strife, Are seen on Antrim's hills no more. The ground is holy where they fell And where their mingled ashes lie, chapter{Section 4Ye Christian people mark it well ...« less