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Table of Contents
Preface.
David Scott (of John.)
Emma Alice Browne.
Nathan Covington Brooks.
John Marchborn Cooley.
George Washington Cruikshank.
Mrs. Annie Mc Carer Darlington.
Rev. William Duke.
Edwin Evans Ewing.
William Pinkney Ewing.
Charles H. Evans.
Mrs. Sarah Hall.
Mrs. Sallie W. Hardcastle.
Mrs. Mary E. Ireland.
George Johnston.
William James Jones.
John Henry Kimble.
James Mc Cauley.
Mrs. Ida Mc Cormick.
Folger Mc Kinsky.
Mrs. Rosaliene R. Murphy.
Rachel E. Patterson.
Callander Patterson.
Tobias Rudulph.
Zebulon Rudulph.
Mrs. Alice Coale Simpers.
David Scott (of James.)
Henry Vanderford.
David Scott (of John.)
Lines
Suggested by the Singing of a Bird Early in March, 1868.
An Eastern Tale
Addressed to Mrs. S.C. Choate.
The Market-Man’s License,
Or The Farmer’s Appeal From a Jackass to the Mayor.
Lines
On the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott.
My Schoolboy Days.
The Donation Visit.
Lines
On the death of Miss Mary Hayes.
Lines
On the death of Miss Eleanora Henderson.
Lines
On the death of Mrs. Burnite who died February 2, 1878.
Stanzas
To Mary.
Impromptu
To Mrs. Anna C. Baker.
Lament for the Year 1887.
Verses
Lines
On the death of a young lady of Wilmington.
Youthful Reminiscences.
Stanzas
To a Little Girl on Her Birthday.
To Miss Mary Bain.
Stanzas
Birthday Verses.
Roll Call.
In Memoriam
Rensellaer Biddle.
Stanzas
Written on the Fly Leaf of a Child’s Bible.
Christmas Greeting, 1877.
Anniversary Poem.
Lines
What is Matter?
Anniversary Hymn.
The Intellectual Telegraph.
Addressed to Miss C. Casho.
Lines on an Indian Arrow-Head.
Acrostic
To Miss Annie Eliza M’Namee.
Minutes
Of the Jackson Hall Debating Society, Dec. 5, 1877.
Retrospection.
Acrostic
To Miss Florence Wilson M’Namee.
The Book of Books.
The Lesson of the Seasons.
John A. Calhoun, My Joe John.
A Parody.
Emma Alice Browne.
Earlier Poems.
My Brother.
My Father.
In Memoriam, 1857.
At the Nightfall.
The Midnight Chime.
May-Thalia.
To Thomas Hempstead.
Memories.
The Old Homestead.
Gurtha.
In Memoriam.
John B. Abrahams, of Port Deposit, Aged 22 Years.
Missive to ——.
Chick-A-Dee’s Song.
Later Poems.
To My Sister.
M.A. Kennon.
Measuring the Baby.
The Light of Dreams.
Ben Hafed’s Meed.
Winter Bound.
Misled.
At Milking-Time.
The Singer’s Song
Aunt Patty’s Thanksgiving.
In Hoc Signo Vinces!
(Under This Sign Thou Shalt Conquer.)
How Katie Saved the Train.
Off the Skidloe.
Life’s Crosses.
Nathan Covington Brooks, A.M., LL.D.
The Mother to Her Dead Boy.
To a Dove.
Mourning amid the Ruins of an Ancient Church.
Fall of Superstition.
A Prize Poem.
The Infant St. John, the Baptist.
Shelley’s Obsequies.
The Fountain Revisited.
Death of Samson.
An Infant’s Prayer.
John Marchborn Cooley.
A Story with a Moral.
Forty Years After.
The Past.
Loved and Lost.
Death of Henry Clay, Jr.
Killed in One of the Battles of the Mexican War.
A Valentine.
Lines
Suggested on Visiting the Grave of a Dear Friend.
George Washington Cruikshank.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
[1863.]
An Impromptu on Hearing of His Death.
In Memoriam.
Frank M. Cruikshank, Died 1862.
New-Year Ode.
[1863.]
My Birthday.
To S—— 1864.
Mrs. Annie Mc Carer Darlington.
A Birthday Greeting
To My Little Nephew.
[July 4th, 1886.]
Murmurings.
The Old Oak Tree.
Sweet Florida.
Evening.
Rev. William Duke.
Hymn.
Hymn.
Rejoicing in Hope.
Hymn.
Remorse.
Morning.
Edwin Evans Ewing.
The Cherubim—A Vision.
Death and Beauty.
Take the Harp.
To Kate.
Death of the Beautiful.
Asphodel.
William Pinkney Ewing.
The Angel Voice.
Then and Now.
The Neglected Harp.
Alone.
Gone Astray.
Lay of the Last Indian.
Charles H. Evans.
Influences.
Musings.
Lines.
Written on Viewing Turkey Point from a Distance.
Mrs. Sarah Hall.
Sketch of a Landscape
With a Rose in January.
Life.
Suggested by a Summer Evening.
Mrs. Sallie Williams Hardcastle.
On Receipt of a Bouquet.
October.
Old Letters.
To Mrs. Annie P——.
June Roses.
Music.
Lines
On the Death of a Friend.
Mrs. Mary Eliza Ireland.
At the Party.
Mother and Son.
The Missionary’s Story.
Transition.
Dorothy Moore.
Homeward Bound.
George Johnston.
Here and Hereafter.
The Turtle’s Sermon.
Skye.
The Dog with the Beautiful Eye.
If You Don’t Believe It, Try It.
Bye and Bye.
William James Jones.
Autumn.
Mary’s Grave.
To Anselmo.
Flowers.
Life.
John Henry Kimble.
His Last Tune.
Advice to an Ambitious Youth.
Too Late.
After the Shower.
A Tribute
To the Memory of David Scott (of John.)
Spring.
James Mc Cauley.
Henry Clay.
Virtuous Age.
Acrostic.
Work To-Day.
On the Death of a Child.
Spring.
Hope.
Autumn.
Mrs. Ida Mc Cormick.
My Fancy Land.
With the Tide.
The Old Fashion.
My Baby and the Rose.
Folger Mc Kinsey.
Waiting Their Crowns.
Sea Echoes.
Where Fancy Dwells.
At Key’s Grave.
The Eternal Life.
Mrs. Rosaliene Romula Murphy.
Woman’s Rights.
Only a Baby.
To Helen,
On Writing a Second Time in Her Album.
Rachel Elizabeth Patterson.
Judge Not!
The Wish.
The Christian’s Anchor.
Callander Patterson.
God Is Great.
Tobias Rudulph.
Selection from Tancred.
Zebulon Rudulph.
The Surprise.
Thoughts,
On the Death of My Grandchild Fanny.
The Decree.
A View from Mount Carmel.
Mrs. Alice Coale Simpers.
The Miller’s Romance.
The Last Time.
Only a Simple Maid!
The Mystic Clock.
A New Year’s Poem.
Rube
and Will.
An Episode Related by Aunt Sheba.
The Legend of St. Bavon!
David Scott (of James.)
The Forced Alliance.
My Cottage Home.
A Vesper Hymn.
The Mighty One.
The Surviving Thought.
The Working Man’s Song.
Ode to Death.
Henry Vanderford.
On the Mountains.
Progress.
Winter.
Lines
On Witnessing Three Sisters Depositing Flowers on the Grave of a Friend, in St. Ann’s Cemetery, Middletown, Delaware.
Merry May.
Preface.
Table of Contents
This volume owes its existence to the desire of some of the teachers and pupils of the public schools in the northeastern part of Cecil county, to do honor to the memory of the late School Commissioner David Scott. Shortly after Mr. Scott’s death, some of the parties referred to, proposed to collect enough money by voluntary contributions to erect a monument over his grave, in order to perpetuate his memory, and also to show the high regard in which he was held by them. This project being brought to the knowledge of the editor, he ventured to express the opinion that the best monument Mr. Scott could have, would be the collection and publication of his poems in book form. This suggestion met the approbation of the originators of the project, who asked the writer to undertake the work of collecting the poems and editing the book. Subsequent investigation showed that Mr. Scott had not left enough poems to justify their publication in a volume by themselves; and the original plan of the work was changed, so as to include, so far as it has been practicable to do so, the writings of all the native poets of the county, and those who though not natives, have resided and written in it.
Owing to causes not necessary to state it was impracticable, in some cases, to make as creditable a selection as could have been made had it been possible to have had access to all the poetry of the different writers. In a few instances the book contains all the poetry of the different writers that it has been practicable to obtain. Herein, it is hoped, will be found sufficient apology, if any apology is needed, for the character of some of the matter in the book.
If any apology is needed for the prominence given to the poems of David Scott (of John.) it may be found in the foregoing statement concerning the origin of the book; and in the fact, that, for more than a quarter of a century, the editor was probably his most intimate friend. So intimate indeed were the relations between Mr. Scott and the writer, that the latter had the pleasure of reading many of his friend’s poems before they were published. The same may be said in a more extended sense, of the poems of David Scott (of James) to whose example and teaching, as well as to that of the other Mr. Scott—for he was a pupil of each of them—the writer owes much of whatever literary ability he may possess.
The editor is also on terms of intimacy with many of the other contemporary writers whose poetry appears in the book, and has striven to do justice to their literary ability, by the selection of such of their poems as are best calculated, in his opinion, to do credit to them, without offending the taste of the most fastidious readers of the book.
From the foregoing statement it will be apparent that the object of the editor was not to produce a book of poetical jems, but only to select the poems best adapted to the exemplification of the diversified talents of their authors. The work has been a labor of love; and though conscious that it has been imperfectly performed, the compiler ventures to express the hope that it will be received by a generous and discriminating public, in the same spirit in which it was done.
Editorial Notes.
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It is a remarkable fact that all the native poets of Cecil county except one or two were born in the northern part of it, and within about eight miles of the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania. What effect, if any, the pure atmosphere and picturesque scenery of the country along the banks and romantic hills of the Susquehanna and Octoraro may have had to do with producing or developing poetical genius, cannot be told; but nevertheless it is a fact, that William P., and Edwin E. Ewing, Emma Alice Browne, Alice Coale Simpers, John M. Cooley and Rachel E. Patterson were born and wrote much of their poetry, as did also Mrs. Caroline Hall, in that beautifully diversified and lovely section of the county.
It is also worthy of note that Tobias and Zebulon Rudulph were brothers, as are also William P. and Edwin E. Ewing; and that Mrs. Caroline Hall was of the same family; and that Folger McKinsey and William J. Jones are cousins, as are also Mrs. James McCormick and Mrs. Frank J. Darlington, and Emma Alice Browne and George Johnston.
Owing to the fact that the size of the book was necessarily limited by the price of it; and to the fact that the poems of three of the writers were not obtained until after a large part of the book had been printed, it was impossible to give some of the writers, whose proper places were in the latter part of the book, as much space as was desirable. For the reason just stated, the editor was compelled to omit a large number of excellent poems, written by David Scott (of James,) and others.
David Scott (of John.)
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Biography
Lines Suggested by the Singing of a Bird
An Eastern Tale
The Market-Man’s License
Lines on the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott
My Schoolboy Days
The Donation Visit
Lines on the death of Miss Mary Hayes
Lines on the death of Miss Eleanora Henderson
Lines on the death of Mrs. Burnite
Stanzas read at the Seventy-second Anniversary of the birthday of Joseph Steele
To Mary
Impromptu to Mrs. Anna C. Baker
Lament for the year 1877
Verses presented to my Daughter
Lines on the death of a young lady of Wilmington
Youthful Reminiscences
Stanzas to a little girl on her birthday
To Miss Mary Bain
Stanzas addressed to Mr. and Mrs. T. Jefferson Scott
Birthday Verses written for a little girl on her ninth birthday
Roll Call
In Memoriam Rensellaer Biddle
Stanzas written on the fly leaf of a child’s Bible
Christmas Greeting, 1877
Anniversary Poem read at the anniversary of the Seventieth birthday of Mrs. Ann Peterson
Lines on the death of Jane Flounders
What is Matter?
Anniversary Hymn
The Intellectual Telegraph
Lines on an Indian Arrow-Head
Acrostic to Miss Annie Eliza McNamee
Minutes of the Jackson Hall Debating Society, Dec. 5, 1877
Retrospection
Acrostic to Miss Florence Wilson McNamee
The Book of Books
The Lesson of the Seasons
John A. Calhoun, My Joe John
Emma Alice Browne.
Table of Contents
Biography
My Brother
My Father. In Memoriam, 1857
At the Nightfall
The Midnight Chime
May-Thalia
Memories
The Old Homestead
Gurtha
In Memoriam. John B. Abrahams
Missive to ——
Chick-A-Dee’s Song
To My Sister
Measuring the Baby
The Light of Dreams
Ben Hafed’s Meed
Winter Bound
Misled
At Milking time
The Singer’s Song
Aunt Betty’s Thanksgiving
In Hoc Signo Vinces
How Katie Saved the Train
Off the Skidloe
Life’s Crosses
Nathan Covington Brooks.
Table of Contents
Biography
The Mother to her dead boy
To a Dove
Fall of Superstition
The Infant St. John the Baptist
Shelley’s Obsequies
The Fountain Revisited
Death of Samson
An Infant’s prayer
John Marchborn Cooley.
Table of Contents
Biography
A Story with a Moral
Forty Years After
The Past
Loved and Lost
Death of Henry Clay, Jr.
A Valentine
Lines suggested on visiting the grave of a dear Friend
George Washington Cruikshank.
Table of Contents
Biography
Stonewall Jackson
In Memoriam
New Year Ode
My Birthday
Mrs. Annie McCarer Darlington.
Table of Contents
Biography
A Birthday Greeting
Murmurings
The Old Oak Tree
Sweet Florida
Evening
Rev. William Duke.
Table of Contents
Biography
Hymn
Hymn
Rejoicing in Hope
Hymn
Remorse
Morning
Edwin Evans Ewing.
Table of Contents
Biography
The Cherubim
Death and Beauty
Take the Harp
Death of the Beautiful
Asphodel
William Pinkney Ewing.
Table of Contents
Biography
The Angel Voice
Then and Now
The Neglected Harp
Alone
Gone Astray
Lay of the Last Indian
Charles H. Evans.
Table of Contents
Biography
Influences
Musings
Lines
Mrs. Sarah Hall.
Table of Contents
Biography
Sketch of a Landscape
With a Rose in January
Life
Mrs. Sallie W. Hardcastle.
Table of Contents
Biography
On Receipt of a Bouquet
October
Old Letters
June Roses
Music
Lines on the death of a Friend
Mrs. Mary E. Ireland.
Table of Contents
Biography
At the Party
Mother and Son
The Missionary’s Story
Transition
Dorothy Moore
Homeward Bound
George Johnston.
Table of Contents
Biography
Here and Hereafter
The Turtle’s Sermon
Skye
If You don’t believe it, try it
Bye and Bye
William James Jones.
Table of Contents
Biography
Autumn
Mary’s Grave
To Anselmo
Flowers
Life
John Henry Kimble.
Table of Contents
Biography
His Last Tune
Advice to an Ambitious Youth
Too Late
After the Shower
Tribute to the Memory of David Scott (of John)
Spring
James McCauley.
Table of Contents
Biography
Henry Clay
Virtuous Age
Acrostic
Work To-day
On the death of a Child
Spring
Hope
Autumn
Mrs. Ida McCormick.
Table of Contents
Biography
My Fancy Land
With the Tide
The Old Fashion
My Baby and the Rose
Folger McKinsky.
Table of Contents
Biography
Waiting their Crowns
Sea Echoes
Where Fancy Dwells
At Key’s Grave
The Eternal Life
Mrs. Rosaliene R. Murphy.
Table of Contents
Biography
Woman’s Rights
Only A Baby
To Helen
Rachel E. Patterson.
Table of Contents
Biography
Judge Not
The Wish
The Christian’s Anchor
Callander Patterson.
Table of Contents
Biography
God Is Great
Tobias Rudulph.
Table of Contents
Biography
Selection from Tancred
Zebulon Rudulph.
Table of Contents
Biography
The Surprise
Thoughts on the death of my grandchild Fanny
The Decree
A view from Mount Carmel
Mrs. Alice Coale Simpers.
Table of Contents
Biography
The Miller’s Romance
The Last Time
Only a Simple Maid
The Mystic Clock
Rube and Will
The Legend of St. Bavon
David Scott (of James.)
Table of Contents
Biography
The Forced Alliance
My Cottage Home
The Mighty One
The Surviving Thought
The Working-Man’s Song
Ode to Death
Henry Vanderford.
Table of Contents
Biography
On the Mountains
Progress
Winter
Lines Written in St. Ann’s Cemetery
Merry May
David Scott (of John.)
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David Scott (of John,) so-called to distinguish him from his first cousin David Scott (of James,) was the grandson of David Scott, who emigrated from Ireland in the latter part of the eighteenth century and settled not far from Cowantown in the Fourth district. His son John, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Ireland, but was quite young when his father came to this country.
David, the subject of this sketch, was born quite near to what was formerly known as Dysart’s Tavern, now Appleton, on the 2nd of September, 1817, and died near Cowantown, on the 14th of November, 1885.
All his life was spent within about two miles of the place of his birth, and most of it on the Big Elk creek at what was known while he owned them, as Scott’s Mills.
His early life was devoted to farming, but upon reaching the proper age he learned the trade of augermaking, which at that time was one of the leading industries of this county, and at which he soon became an expert workman, as well as a skilful worker in iron and steel. The editor of this book has heard him remark that when he could find no one else capable of making odd pieces of ironwork for the machinery in his mills he would take the hammer and make them himself, and has also seen him make and temper the knives for a spoke machine which he used for a time in his bending mill.
He and the late Palmer C. Ricketts were intimate friends in boyhood and remained such during the lifetime of Mr. Ricketts. Mr. Ricketts being of a literary turn of mind, their friendship probably had much to do with forming the literary tastes and shaping the political opinions of Mr. Scott.
Mr. Scott was originally a Democrat, and when only about 23 years of age is said to have aspired to a seat in the General Assembly of his native State. But the leaders of the party failed to recognize his claims, and he shortly afterwards was instrumental in the formation of the first politico temperance organization in this county, and ran for the House of Delegates on the first temperance ticket placed before the people in 1845. For a few years afterwards he took no part in politics, his whole time and talents being engrossed in business, but in 1853 at the solicitation of his friend Ricketts, he consented to be a candidate for County Commissioner, and succeeded in carrying the Fourth district in which he lived, which was then known as the Gibraltar of Democracy, by a small majority, and securing his election by a majority of one vote over Griffith M. Eldredge, his highest competitor on the Democratic ticket.
In 1855 he ran on the American ticket, with the late Samuel Miller and Dr. Slater B. Stubbs, for the House of Delegates, and was elected by a handsome majority.
In 1859 Mr. Scott consented to run on the American ticket for the State Senate. His competitor was the late Joseph J. Heckart, who was elected. This was a memorable campaign on account of the effect produced by the John Brown raid upon the State of Virginia and the capture of Harper’s Ferry, which had a disastrous effect upon Mr. Scott’s prospects, owing probably to which he was defeated.
At the outbreaking of the war of the rebellion he espoused the Union cause and gave it his hearty support during the continuance of the struggle, and remained a consistent Republican until his death.
In 1864 he was a delegate to represent Cecil county in the Constitutional Convention, his colleagues being Thomas P. Jones, George Earle and the late Joseph B. Pugh. He was assigned to a place upon the Committee on the Elective Franchise and had more to do with originating that section of the Constitution which provided for the passage of a registration law than any other person on the committee—probably more than any other member of the Convention. He was an intimate friend of Henry H. Goldsborough, whom he had previously nominated in the Republican State Convention for the office of Comptroller of the State Treasury, which office he still held, and whom Mr. Scott also nominated for President of the Constitutional Convention in the Republican caucus, and, as was very natural, was often called upon by Mr. Goldsborough to preside over the Convention in his absence, which he did with that suaviter in modo and fortiter in re for which he was remarkable and with great acceptability to the members of both political parties.
During the invasion of the State in July, 1864, he was one of the most active members in urging upon the loyalists of Annapolis and the military authorities in that city and at Camp Parole