LEGENDS
OF
NEW-ENGLAND.
— “The aged crone
Mixing the true and doubtful into one,
Tells how the Indian scalped the helpless child
And bore its shrieking mother to the wild.
How drums and flags and troops were seen on high
Wheeling and charging in the northern sky.—
How by the thunder-blasted tree was hid
The golden spoils of far famed Robert Kid;
And then the chubby grand-child wants to know
About the ghosts and witches long ago.”
Brainard.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
Hartford.
PUBLISHED BY HANMER AND PHELPS.
Sold by Packard & Butler, Hartford; Carter, Hendee & Babcock, Boston;
G. & C. & H. Carvill, and E. Bliss, New-York; A. E. Carey, and
A. Hart, Philadelphia; and by the Booksellers generally.
© 1831.
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