. The poets' New England. inds an extensive library offour books, in the description of which is a dash ofhumor not uncharacteristic of Whittier: A well-thumbed Bunyan, with its nice wood picturesOf scaly fiends and angels not unlike them;Watts unmelodious psalms; astrologysLast home, a musty pile of almanacs,And an old chronicle of border warsAnd Indian history. He finds in the Indian history the Story of themarriage of the Chief of Saugus to the dusky Weeta-moo, daughter of Passaconaway, who dwelt in the oldtime upon the Merrimac. The girl of the party insists that the others shallgive a ver
. The poets' New England. inds an extensive library offour books, in the description of which is a dash ofhumor not uncharacteristic of Whittier: A well-thumbed Bunyan, with its nice wood picturesOf scaly fiends and angels not unlike them;Watts unmelodious psalms; astrologysLast home, a musty pile of almanacs,And an old chronicle of border warsAnd Indian history. He finds in the Indian history the Story of themarriage of the Chief of Saugus to the dusky Weeta-moo, daughter of Passaconaway, who dwelt in the oldtime upon the Merrimac. The girl of the party insists that the others shallgive a versified account of the legend, which they agreeto do. Each is then supposed to take one of the di-visions, of which the first describes the Merrimac asit was in those early days, already referred to in thefirst chapter; the second describes the dwelling amongthe White Hills of the mighty chief or Bashaba, Pas-saconaway, drawing also his portrait, the chief ofmagic skill, And a Panisees dark willOver powers of good and ill,. Hi1-1 H 1^ Wo THE POETS NEW ENGLAND 89 Powers which bless and powers which ban,Wizard lord of Pennacook. The Daughter, The Wedding, follow; then thenew home on the sea-coast is described: A wild and broken landscape, spiked with the bleak horizons northern edge. *And eastward cold, wide marshes stretched , dreary flats without a bush or tree,Cer-crossed by icy creeks, where twice a dayGurgled the waters of the moon-struck sea;And faint with distance came the stifled roar,The melancholy lapse of waves on that low shore. The New England coast in the neighborhood of thepresent location of Salem is finely shown here in itswinter bleakness. The poem now works up quicklyto the tragedy. Weetamoo, the bride, goes home ona visit to her father; simuner passes, and still Winne-purkit does not send for her. At length a runner from her father Winnepurkits sea-cooled wigwam went;Eagle of Saugus,—in the woods the doveMourns for the shelter
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