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Title: History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Queens Co., N.Y Queens Co., N.Y
Publisher: New York W.W. Munsell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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day a company of young men andmaidens, who were the guests of the hall, were crushingthe yielding sand under their feet as they promenadedhither and yon. We contrasted these scenes with thoseenacted there centuries ago, and in our reverie the fol-lowing words, from another writer, came to mind: Little thought the gay maidens and gallant beauxgave to the bones of the mighty dead that lay moulder-ing everywhere about them. How lightly rang the song,the laugh, the clear glad carol of youth in the serenesunshine; and yet how solemnly, in what fearful calm-ness, slept a thousand men under the grass. Tlie sameair once rang to the wail of Indian maidens, who sat bythe bodies of the valiant dead. The same sunshine fellon horrible wounds, and teeth clenched in the last longgasp, and cold foreheads moist with the death dew. Thesame holy twilight that mantled us after a while, as withan atmosphere of love, shrouded the sleep of the Matine-cock, as his grasp relaxed on the throat of his foe, his
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