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It is the spot I came to seek	A
My fathers' ancient burial place	B
Ere from these vales ashamed and weak	A
Withdrew our wasted race	B
It is the spot I know it well	C
Of which our old traditions tell	C
	-
For here the upland bank sends out	D
A ridge toward the river side	E
I know the shaggy hills about	D
The meadows smooth and wide	E
The plains that toward the southern sky	F
Fenced east and west by mountains lie	F
	-
A white man gazing on the scene	G
Would say a lovely spot was here	H
And praise the lawns so fresh and green	G
Between the hills so sheer	I
I like it not I would the plain	J
Lay in its tall old groves again	K
	-
The sheep are on the slopes around	L
The cattle in the meadows feed	M
And labourers turn the crumbling ground	L
Or drop the yellow seed	M
And prancing steeds in trappings gay	N
Whirl the bright chariot o'er the way	N
	-
Methinks it were a nobler sight	O
To see these vales in woods arrayed	P
Their summits in the golden light	O
Their trunks in grateful shade	P
And herds of deer that bounding go	Q
O'er hills and prostrate trees below	Q
	-
And then to mark the lord of all	R
The forest hero trained to wars	S
Quivered and plumed and lithe and tall	R
And seamed with glorious scars	T
Walk forth amid his reign to dare	U
The wolf and grapple with the bear	U
	-
This bank in which the dead were laid	P
Was sacred when its soil was ours	V
Hither the artless Indian maid	P
Brought wreaths of beads and flowers	V
And the gray chief and gifted seer	H
Worshipped the god of thunders here	H
	-
But now the wheat is green and high	F
On clods that hid the warrior's breast	W
And scattered in the furrows lie	F
The weapons of his rest	W
And there in the loose sand is thrown	X
Of his large arm the mouldering bone	X
	-
Ah little thought the strong and brave	Y
Who bore their lifeless chieftain forth	Z
Or the young wife that weeping gave	Y
Her first born to the earth	A2
That the pale race who waste us now	B2
Among their bones should guide the plough	B2
	-
They waste us ay like April snow	Q
In the warm noon we shrink away	N
And fast they follow as we go	Q
Towards the setting day	N
Till they shall fill the land and we	C2
Are driven into the western sea	C2
	-
But I behold a fearful sign	D2
To which the white men's eyes are blind	E2
Their race may vanish hence like mine	D2
And leave no trace behind	E2
Save ruins o'er the region spread	F2
And the white stones above the dead	F2
	-
Before these fields were shorn and tilled	F2
Full to the brim our rivers flowed	F2
The melody of waters filled	F2
The fresh and boundless wood	F2
And torrents dashed and rivulets played	F2
And fountains spouted in the shade	F2
	-
Those grateful sounds are heard no more	G2
The springs are silent in the sun	H2
The rivers by the blackened shore	G2
With lessening current run	H2
The realm our tribes are crushed to get	F2
May be a barren desert yet	F2

William Cullen Bryant

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