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Page 97
Oh Stream of Life! the violet springs
But once beside thy bed;
But one brief summer, on thy path,
The dews of heaven are shed.
Thy parent fountains shrink away,
And close their crystal veins,
And where thy glittering current flowed
The dust alone remains.
* * * * *
NOTES.
* * * * *
NOTES.
POEM OF THE AGES.
In this poem, written and first printed in the year 1821, the author
has endeavoured, from a survey of the past ages of the world, and
of the successive advances of mankind in knowledge, virtue, and
happiness, to justify and confirm the hopes of the philanthropist for
the future destinies of the human race.
THE BURIAL-PLACE. (A Fragment)
The first half of this fragment may seem to the reader borrowed from
the essay on Rural Funerals in the fourth number of the Sketch-Book.
The lines were, however, written more than a year before that number
appeared. The poem, unfinished as it is, would not have been admitted
into this collection, had not the author been unwilling to lose what
had the honour of resembling so beautiful a composition.
THE MASSACRE AT SCIO.
This poem, written about the time of the horrible butchery of the
Sciotes by the Turks, in 1824, has been more fortunate than most
poetical predictions. The independence of the Greek nation, which it
foretold, has come to pass, and the massacre, by inspiring a deeper
detestation of their oppressors, did much to promote that event.
THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT.
_Her maiden veil, her own black hair_, &c.
"The unmarried females have a modest falling down of the hair over
the eyes."--ELIOT.
MONUMENT MOUNTAIN.
The mountain, called by this name, is a remarkable precipice in
Great Barrington, overlooking the rich and picturesque valley of the
Housatonic, in the western part of Massachusetts. At the southern
extremity is, or was a few years since, a conical pile of small
stones, erected, according to the tradition of the surrounding
country, by the Indians, in memory of a woman of the Stockbridge
tribe, who killed herself by leaping from the edge of the precipice.
Until within a few years past, small parties of that tribe used to
arrive from their settlement in the western part of the state of New
York, on visits to Stockbridge, the place of their nativity and former
residence. A young woman belonging to one of these parties related,
to a friend of the author, the story on which the poem of Monument
Mountain is founded. An Indian girl had formed an attachment for her
cousin, which, according to the customs of the tribe, was unlawful.
She was, in consequence, seized with a deep melancholy, and resolved
to destroy herself. In company with a female friend, she repaired to
the mountain, decked out for the occasion in all her ornaments, and,
after passing the day on the summit in singing with her companion the
traditional songs of her nation, she threw herself headlong from the
rock, and was killed.
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