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    Indian Legends and Other Poems
    Indian Legends and Other Poems
    Indian Legends and Other Poems
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    Indian Legends and Other Poems

    By Mary Gardiner Horsford

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Indian Legends and Other Poems - Mary Gardiner Horsford

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      Title: Indian Legends and Other Poems

      Author: Mary Gardiner Horsford

      Release Date: August 21, 2006 [EBook #19096]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDIAN LEGENDS AND OTHER POEMS ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Lisa Reigel, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      book was produced from scanned images of public domain

      material from the Google Print project.)

      INDIAN LEGENDS

      AND

      OTHER POEMS.

      INDIAN LEGENDS

      AND

      Other Poems.

      BY

      MARY GARDINER HORSFORD.

      NEW YORK:

      J. C. DERBY, 119 NASSAU STREET.

      BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & CO.

      CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY.

      1855.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

      MARY GARDINER HORSFORD,

      in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

      HOLMAN & GRAY, Printers and Stereotypers.

      TO MY FATHER,

      SAMUEL S. GARDINER, Esq.,

      This Volume is Inscribed,

      AS A

      SLIGHT TESTIMONIAL OF A DAUGHTER'S GRATITUDE

      AND AFFECTION.

      CONTENTS.

      INDIAN LEGENDS.

      THE THUNDERBOLT.

      There is an artless tradition among the Indians, related by Irving, of a warrior who saw the thunderbolt lying upon the ground, with a beautifully wrought moccasin on each side of it. Thinking he had found a prize, he put on the moccasins, but they bore him away to the land of spirits, whence he never returned.

      Loud pealed the thunder

      From arsenal high,

      Bright flashed the lightning

      Athwart the broad sky;

      Fast o'er the prairie,

      Through torrent and shade,

      Sought the red hunter

      His hut in the glade.

      Deep roared the cannon

      Whose forge is the sun,

      And red was the chain

      The thunderbolt spun;

      O'er the thick wild wood

      There quivered a line,

      Low 'mid the green leaves

      Lay hunter and pine.

      Clear was the sunshine,

      The hurricane past,

      And fair flowers smiled in

      The path of the blast;

      While in the forest

      Lay rent the huge tree,

      Up rose the red man,

      All unharmed and free.

      Bright glittered each leaf

      With sunlight and spray,

      And close at his feet

      The thunder-bolt lay,

      And moccasins, wrought

      With the beads that shine,

      Where the rainbow hangeth

      A wampum divine.

      Wondered the hunter

      What spirit was there,

      Then donned the strange gift

      With shout and with prayer;

      But the stout forest

      That echoed the strain,

      Heard never the voice of

      That red man again.

      Up o'er the mountain,

      As torrents roll down,

      Marched he o'er dark oak

      And pine's soaring crown;

      Far in the bright west

      The sunset grew clear,

      Crimson and golden

      The hunting-grounds near:

      Light trod the chieftain

      The tapestried plain,

      There stood his good horse

      He'd left with the slain;

      Gone were the sandals,

      And broken the spell;

      A drop of clear dew

      From either foot fell.

      Long the dark maiden

      Sought, tearful and wide;

      Never the red man

      Came back for his bride;

      With the forked lightning

      Now hunts he the deer,

      Where the Great Spirit

      Smiles ever and near.

      THE PHANTOM BRIDE.

      During the Revolutionary war, a young American lady was murdered, while dressed in her bridal robe, by a party of Indians, sent by her betrothed to conduct her to the village where he was encamped. After the deed was done, they carried her long hair to her lover, who, urged by a frantic despair, hurried to the spot to assure himself of the truth of the tale, and shortly after threw himself, in battle, on the swords of his countrymen. After this event, the Indians were never successful in

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