ODE TO JAMESTOWN. One empire still another breeds, A giant progeny, To war upon the pigmy gods of earth, The tyrants, to whom ignorance gave birth. Then, as I turn my thoughts to trace The fount whence these rich waters sprung And find it, these rude stones among. Here rest the sires of millions, sleeping sound Their names have been forgotten long; Nor breathe in pious strains. Yet this sublime obscurity, to me They live in millions that now breathe; As bright a crown as e'er was worn, And hang it on the green-leaved bough, No one that inspiration drinks; No one that loves his native land; 265 266 ODE TO JAMESTOWN. No one that reasons, feels, or thinks, Can 'mid these lonely ruins stand, Without a moistened eye, a grateful tear, Of reverent gratitude to those that moulder here. The mighty shade now hovers round- In letters that no time shall sere; Who in the old world smote the turbaned crew, And founded Christian empires in the new. And SHE! the glorious Indian maid, The tutelary of this land, The angel of the woodland shade, The miracle of God's own hand, Who joined man's heart, to woman's softest grace, And thrice redeemed the scourgers of her race. Sister of charity and love, Whose life blood was soft Pity's tide, Dear Goddess of the sylvan grove. Flower of the Forest, nature's pride, He is no man who does not bend the knee, Jamestown, and Plymouth's hallowed rock, ODE TO JAMESTOWN. I care not who my themes may mock, Or sneer at them and me. I envy not the brute who here can stand, And if the recreant crawl her earth, Or, in New England claim his birth, From the old Pilgrims there, He is a bastard, if he dare to mock, 267 Old Jamestown's shrine, or Plymouth's famous rock. STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD. BY C. E. DAPON TE. THOU who art hid for ever from these eyes, Beside thy early tomb with heavy sighs,- My child, thy spirit bending from the skies, O! wander round, and I shall deem I hear I WEEP While gazing on thy modest face, Kind Heaven! some secret talisman of hearts The beautiful and young, that while their path |