Poems of America . LUSTRATIONS. MIDDLE STATES. Came the dun files of Krisheims home-bound cows A pleasant vale Far in the forests , These lovely shores The Hudsons sleeping waters . This rock-walled sable pool . * Slowly, the deepening verdure oer the earth The moon was climbing the sky that night . O Haunted Lake, among the pine-clad mountains Perkiomen the River Wild rivulet of wood and glen .* As when the hermit waters woke Beneath the Indians bark ... Page 5 1542^ 97 V121V 1381/146 V 179/183 205 V267 V WESTERN STATES. « Land of the West 5 ^^ We cross the prairie as of old 29 v Fro
Poems of America . LUSTRATIONS. MIDDLE STATES. Came the dun files of Krisheims home-bound cows A pleasant vale Far in the forests , These lovely shores The Hudsons sleeping waters . This rock-walled sable pool . * Slowly, the deepening verdure oer the earth The moon was climbing the sky that night . O Haunted Lake, among the pine-clad mountains Perkiomen the River Wild rivulet of wood and glen .* As when the hermit waters woke Beneath the Indians bark ... Page 5 1542^ 97 V121V 1381/146 V 179/183 205 V267 V WESTERN STATES. « Land of the West 5 ^^ We cross the prairie as of old 29 v From towers undefiled by man 37 v The Yellowstone 51 , Oh, what a still, bright night 78^ The autumn time is with us ..... 102 i^ Thy mountain shores between . . . 144/ I plant me where the red deer feed ... 167 l/ The little prairie dog here builds his burrow . •175^ These mountains, piercing the blue sky . . 182 / San Francisco in 1849 197 ^ Till the Black Robed chief, the pale face . 236 . MIDDLE Il^fTEODUOTOET. NEW YORK. hendriks prophecy. The words of the refrain in this song are those used by Henry Hudsonhimself, when he first brought his ship through the Narrows, and sawthe bay of New York. FLOW fair beside the Palisades, flow, Hudson, fairand proud Manhattans shore of ships and green Hobokens tree ;So fair yon haven clasped its isles, in such a sunset Hendrik and his sea-worn tars first sounded up the climbed this rocky palisade, and resting on its round the can and gazed awhile on shore and wave below;And Hendrik drank with hearty cheer, and loudly then cried he : T is a good land to fall in with, men, and a pleasant land to see! 3 POEMS OF PLACES. Then sometliiiig—ah, t was prophecy! — came glowing to his brain:He seemed to see the mightier space between the oceans other streams by other strands run through their forests fair,Trom bold Missouris lordly tide to the leafy Delaware;The Sacramento, too, he
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