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I	A
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Far in the West where snow capt mountains rise	B
Like marble shafts beneath Heaven's stooping dome	C
And sunset's dreamy curtain drapes the skies	B
As if enchantment there would build her home	C
O'er wood and wave from haunts of men away	D
From out the glen all trembling like a child	E
A babbling streamlet comes as if to play	D
Albeit the scene is savage lone and wild	E
Here at the mountain's foot that infant wave	F
'Mid bowering leaves doth hide its rustic birth	G
Here learns the rock and precipice to brave	F
And go the Monarch River of the Earth	G
Far far from hence its bosom deep and wide	H
Bears the proud steamer on its fiery wing	I
Along its banks bright cities rise in pride	H
And o'er its breast their gorgeous image fling	I
The Mississippi needs no herald now	J
But here within this glen unknown to fame	K
It flows content a bubble on its brow	J
A leaf upon its breast without a name	K
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II	A
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Strange contrasts here for on the glacier's height	L
The tempest raves and arrowy lightnings leap	M
Yet deep beneath the wild flowers lone and light	L
On slender stems in breezeless silence sleep	M
Skyward the racing eagles wildly fling	I
Their savage clamor to the echoing dell	N
While sheltered deep the bee with folded wing	I
Voluptuous slumbers in his fragrant cell	N
Around the splintered rocks are heaped to heaven	O
With grisly caverns yawning wide between	P
As if the Titans there had battle given	O
And left their ruin written on the scene	P
Yet o'er these ghastly shapes soft lichens wind	Q
And timid daisies droop and tranquil flowers	R
A robe of many colored beauty bind	Q
As if some vagrant fairy claimed these bowers	R
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III	A
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Fit cradle this Majestic Stream for thee	S
Nursed at the glacier's foot by tempests fed	T
The lightning flashing o'er thy canopy	S
And thunders pealing round thine infant bed	T
The pious Indian marks thy mystic birth	G
'Mid storm and cloud and nature's aspect wild	E
And wondering deems thee not a thing of earth	G
But great Manitto's fair and favored child	E
Aye and the mind by inspiration taught	U
Like nature's pupil feels a Presence near	V
Which bids the bosom tremble with the thought	U
That He who came from Teman hath been here B	S
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IV	F
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What thronging fancies crowd upon the soul	W
As from these heights the Giant Stream we trace	X
And wander with its waters as they roll	W
From hence to their far ocean dwelling place	X
Marking its birth in this bleak frigid zone	Y
Its conquering march to yonder tropic shore	Z
The boundless valley which it makes its own	Y
With thousand tribute rivers as they pour	Z
No classic page its story to reveal	A2
No nymph or na ad sporting in its glades	B2
No banks encrimsoned with heroic steel	A2
And haunted yet by dim poetic shades	B2
Its annals linger in the eternal rock	C2
Hoary with centuries in cataracts that sing	I
To the dull ear of ages in the shock	C2
Of plunging glaciers that madly fling	I
The forest like a flight of spears aloft	D2
In wooded vales that spread beyond the view	F
In boundless prairies blooming fair and soft	E2
In mantling vines that teem with clusters blue	F
And as the sunny south upon us breathes	F2
In orange groves that scent the balmy air	G2
And tempt soft summer with its fragrant wreaths	H2
Throughout the year to be a dweller there	G2
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V	F
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These of the past their whispered lore unfold	I2
And fertile fancy with its wizard art	J2
May weave wild legends as the seers of old	I2
Made gods and heroes into being start	J2
Perchance some mystic mound may wake the spell	N
A crumbled skull a spear a vase of clay	D
Within its bosom half the tale may tell	N
And all the rest 'tis fancy's gift to say	D
Alas that ruthless science in these days	K2
To its stern crucible hath brought at last	L2
The cherished shapes that all so fondly gaze	K2
Upon us from the dim poetic past	L2
Else might these moonlit prairies show at dawn	M2
The dew swept circle of the elfin dance	N2
These woodlands teem with sportive fay and faun	M2
These grottoes glimmer with sweet Echo's glance	N2
Perchance a future Homer might have wrought	U
From out the scattered wreck of ages fled	T
Some long lost Troy where mighty heroes fought	U
And made the earth re echo with their tread	T
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VI	F
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It may not be for though these scenes are fair	G2
As fabled Arcady the sylph and fay	D
And all their gentle kindred shun the air	G2
Where car and steamer make their stormy way	D
Perchance some Cooper's magic art may wake	O2
The sleeping legends of this mighty vale	P2
And twine fond memories round the lawn and lake	O2
Where Warrior fought or Lover told his tale	P2
And when the Red Man's form hath left these glades	B2
And memory's moonlight o'er his story streams	Q2
From their dim graves shall rise heroic shades	B2
And fill the fancy with romantic dreams	Q2
Then in the city's gorgeous squares shall rise	B
The chiselled column to the admiring view	F
To mark the spot where some stern Black Hawk lies	B
Whom ages gone our glorious grandsires slew	F
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VII	F
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Dim shadows these that come at Fancy's call	R2
Yet deeper scenes before the Patriot rise	B
As fate's stern prophet lifts the fearful pall	S2
And shows the future to his straining eyes	B
Oh shall that vision paint this glorious vale	P2
With happy millions o'er its bosom spread	T
Or ghastly scenes where battle taints the gale	P2
With brother's blood by brother's weapon shed	T
Away ye phantom fears the scene is fair	G2
Down the long vista of uncounted years	T2
Bright harvests smile sweet meadows scent the air	G2
And peaceful plenty o'er the scene appears	T2
The village rings with labor's jocund laugh	F
The hoyden shout around the school house door	Z
The old man's voice as bending o'er his staff	F
He waxes valiant in the tales of yore	Z
Far tapering spires from teeming cities rise	B
The sabbath bell comes stealing on the air	G2
A holy anthem seeks the bending skies	B
And earth and heaven seem fondly blended there	G2
Aye and beyond where distance spreads its blue	F
Down the unfolding vale of future time	U2
A glorious vision rises on the view	F
And wakes the bosom with a hope sublime	U2
Majestic Stream at dim Creation's dawn	M2
Thou wert a witness of that glorious birth	G
And thy proud waters still shall sweep the lawn	M2
When Peace shall claim dominion of the earth	G
Here in this vale for mighty empire made	V2
Perchance the glorious flag shall be unfurled	W2
And violence and wrong and ruin fade	V2
Before its conquering march around the world	W2

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

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