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How sweetly on the wood girt town	A
The mellow light of sunset shone	B
Each small bright lake whose waters still	C
Mirror the forest and the hill	C
Reflected from its waveless breast	D
The beauty of a cloudless west	D
Glorious as if a glimpse were given	E
Within the western gates of heaven	E
Left by the spirit of the star	F
Of sunset's holy hour ajar	F
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Beside the river's tranquil flood	G
The dark and low walled dwellings stood	H
Where many a rood of open land	I
Stretched up and down on either hand	I
With corn leaves waving freshly green	J
The thick and blackened stumps between	J
Behind unbroken deep and dread	K
The wild untravelled forest spread	K
Back to those mountains white and cold	L
Of which the Indian trapper told	L
Upon whose summits never yet	M
Was mortal foot in safety set	M
	-
Quiet and calm without a fear	N
Of danger darkly lurking near	N
The weary laborer left his plough	O
The milkmaid carolled by her cow	O
From cottage door and household hearth	P
Rose songs of praise or tones of mirth	Q
	-
At length the murmur died away	R
And silence on that village lay	R
So slept Pompeii tower and hall	S
Ere the quick earthquake swallowed all	S
Undreaming of the fiery fate	T
Which made its dwellings desolate	U
	-
Hours passed away By moonlight sped	K
The Merrimac along his bed	K
Bathed in the pallid lustre stood	H
Dark cottage wall and rock and wood	H
Silent beneath that tranquil beam	V
As the hushed grouping of a dream	V
Yet on the still air crept a sound	W
No bark of fox nor rabbit's bound	W
Nor stir of wings nor waters flowing	X
Nor leaves in midnight breezes blowing	X
	-
Was that the tread of many feet	Y
Which downward from the hillside beat	Y
What forms were those which darkly stood	H
Just on the margin of the wood	H
Charred tree stumps in the moonlight dim	Z
Or paling rude or leafless limb	Z
No through the trees fierce eyeballs glowed	A2
Dark human forms in moonshine showed	A2
Wild from their native wilderness	B2
With painted limbs and battle dress	C2
	-
A yell the dead might wake to hear	D2
Swelled on the night air far and clear	N
Then smote the Indian tomahawk	E2
On crashing door and shattering lock	F2
	-
Then rang the rifle shot and then	G2
The shrill death scream of stricken men	G2
Sank the red axe in woman's brain	H2
And childhood's cry arose in vain	H2
Bursting through roof and window came	I2
Red fast and fierce the kindled flame	I2
And blended fire and moonlight glared	J2
On still dead men and scalp knives bared	J2
	-
The morning sun looked brightly through	K2
The river willows wet with dew	K2
No sound of combat filled the air	L2
No shout was heard nor gunshot there	L2
Yet still the thick and sullen smoke	M2
From smouldering ruins slowly broke	M2
And on the greensward many a stain	H2
And here and there the mangled slain	H2
Told how that midnight bolt had sped	K
Pentucket on thy fated head	K
	-
Even now the villager can tell	N2
Where Rolfe beside his hearthstone fell	N2
Still show the door of wasting oak	M2
Through which the fatal death shot broke	M2
And point the curious stranger where	L2
De Rouville's corse lay grim and bare	L2
Whose hideous head in death still feared	O2
Bore not a trace of hair or beard	O2
And still within the churchyard ground	W
Heaves darkly up the ancient mound	W
Whose grass grown surface overlies	C2
The victims of that sacrifice	C2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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