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Title: Poems of America
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, ed
Subjects: American poetry
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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-airies high divide,With nothing betwixt us and the sky,And naught the land to hide. And, oh ! it is fair to seeThe acres and acres that roll 174 POEMS OF PLACES. Like the waves of a stifFeued sea,Witli ours to crown the whole. And far away a plain, Through which a river glides;Yet never a single field of grain The fertile soil provides. right Long has it been the Of bison and of deer;The home of the red man m his might. Who scorns to have a peer. But now is the scene all still As a graveyards hallowed ground; Nor sign of hfe save of us on the hill.Nor any other sound. George P. Guerrier. A PRAIRIE-DOG VILLAGE. ONE night a band of Indians attacked us,Crossing the Rocky Mountains once by stage.And left us horseless in a waste of cactus And parched wild sage, —A desert region, — dreary desolation. Where never flower bloomed or gi-ass grew green,As if accursed of God from the creationThe land had been. Yet here, remote from man, unused to tillage.Afar from human joy and human strife.
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The ILttle prairie dDg here builds his burrow.■ See page 175. PRAIRIES, THE. 175 I We walked the roadsides of a thrifty village Of busy life.And saw the people resting from their labors; Snug houses theirs, well filled with winter stores,And matrons, chattering gossip with their neighbors. Stood at the doors. The little prairie-dog here builds his burrow,* Our driver said, and here the rattlesnake < And solemn owl, helpmates in joy and sorrow, i Their dwelling make, ^ And in these burrows, snug in every weather.Secure each one in all his rights, the three,A happy family, consort togetherIn unity. The snake, strong-armed and fierce, keeps out the i stranger; I The owl, Minervas bird, sage counsel gives; ; And so the prairie-dog in haunts of danger j In safety lives; i And all unfettered by your laws of iron. Each lending cheerful help, their homes they build ; Together thus lie down the lamb and Hon, , Gods word fulfilled. ; * * * Edward B. Nealleij. X76 POEMS OF PLACES. A PRAIEIE

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