 Alas ! for them — their day is o'er. Their fires are out from hill and shore; No more for them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods, Their...  Naomi: Or, Boston, Two Hundred Years Ago - Page 117by Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Sprague - 1829 - 66 pages
...Fathers rose, And dared as ye would dare ? XIX. Alas ! for them — their day is o'er, Their fires arc out from hill and shore , No more for them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds ; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their... | |
 | Charles Sprague - Boston (Mass.) - 1830 - 120 pages
...to spare, Who rose but as your Fathers rose, And dared as ye would dare ? XIX. Alas ! for them-1— their day is o'er, Their fires are out from hill and...them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds ; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1831 - 622 pages
...but as your Fathers roee, And dared as ye would dare ? Alas ! for them their day is o'er, Their lires are out from hill and shore : No more for them the wild doer bounds. The plough is on their hunting grounds; The pale man's axe rings through their woods,... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...nor sought nor given ; The pale man from his lands must fly ; He would be free — or he would die. Alas for them ! — their day is o'er, Their fires...them the wild deer bounds ; The plough is on their hunting grounds ; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...for those, One brother-line to spare, Who rose but as your fathers rose, And dared as ye would dare ? Alas for them! their day is o'er; Their fires are out from hill and shore; * Bunker Hill. No more for them the wild deer bounds; The plough is on their hunting-grounds; The pale... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...his clay. CHARLES SPRAGUE. 8. Alas, for them ! their day is o'er, Their fires are out from shore to shore ; No more for them the wild deer bounds — The plough is on their hunting grounds. The pale man's axe rings thro' their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...his power has pass'd away, His deeds, his thoughts, are buried with his clay. CHARLES SI-RAGUE. 8. Alas, for them ! their day is o'er, • Their fires are out from shore to shore ; No more for them the wild deer bounds — The plough is on their hunting grounds.... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Abenaki Indians - 1849 - 394 pages
...this has passed away ! Like the mists of morning they have faded, nor left a lingering wreck behind. " Alas ! for them — their day is o'er, Their fires...them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds ; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - Local history - 1850 - 354 pages
...the river." Beautifully is their evanescent condition described by our admirable poet, — Sprague : Alas ! for them, their day is o'er ! Their fires are...them the wild deer bounds ; The plough is on their hunting grounds ; The pale man's axe rings through their woods — The pale man's sail skims o'er their... | |
 | Litchfield County (Conn.) - Litchfield (Conn.) - 1851 - 440 pages
...of antiquarian research, and oft-told legend. Their brief history has been written in desolation. " Alas, for them, their day is o'er— Their fires are out from shore to shore! No more for them the wild deer bounds, The plow is on their hunting grounds." The settlement... | |
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