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When Ruth was left half desolate	A
Her Father took another Mate	B
And Ruth not seven years old	C
A slighted child at her own will	D
Went wandering over dale and hill	D
In thoughtless freedom bold	C
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And she had made a pipe of straw	E
And music from that pipe could draw	E
Like sounds of winds and floods	F
Had built a bower upon the green	G
As if she from her birth had been	H
An infant of the woods	I
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Beneath her father's roof alone	J
She seemed to live her thoughts her own	J
Herself her own delight	K
Pleased with herself nor sad nor gay	L
And passing thus the live long day	L
She grew to woman's height	K
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There came a Youth from Georgia's shore	M
A military casque he wore	M
With splendid feathers drest	K
He brought them from the Cherokees	N
The feathers nodded in the breeze	N
And made a gallant crest	K
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From Indian blood you deem him sprung	O
But no he spake the English tongue	O
And bore a soldier's name	P
And when America was free	Q
From battle and from jeopardy	Q
He 'cross the ocean came	P
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With hues of genius on his cheek	R
In finest tones the Youth could speak	R
While he was yet a boy	S
The moon the glory of the sun	T
And streams that murmur as they run	T
Had been his dearest joy	S
	-
He was a lovely Youth I guess	U
The panther in the wilderness	V
Was not so fair as he	Q
And when he chose to sport and play	L
No dolphin ever was so gay	L
Upon the tropic sea	Q
	-
Among the Indians he had fought	K
And with him many tales he brought	K
Of pleasure and of fear	W
Such tales as told to any maid	K
By such a Youth in the green shade	K
Were perilous to hear	X
	-
He told of girls a happy rout	K
Who quit their fold with dance and shout	K
Their pleasant Indian town	Y
To gather strawberries all day long	Z
Returning with a choral song	Z
When daylight is gone down	Y
	-
He spake of plants that hourly change	A2
Their blossoms through a boundless range	A2
Of intermingling hues	B2
With budding fading faded flowers	C2
They stand the wonder of the bowers	C2
From morn to evening dews	B2
	-
He told of the magnolia spread	K
High as a cloud high over head	K
The cypress and her spire	D2
Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam	E2
Cover a hundred leagues and seem	E2
To set the hills on fire	F2
	-
The Youth of green savannahs spake	G2
And many an endless endless lake	G2
With all its fairy crowds	H2
Of islands that together lie	I2
As quietly as spots of sky	I2
Among the evening clouds	H2
	-
How pleasant then he said it were	F2
A fisher or a hunter there	J2
In sunshine or in shade	K
To wander with an easy mind	K
And build a household fire and find	K
A home in every glade	K
	-
What days and what bright years Ah me	Q
Our life were life indeed with thee	Q
So passed in quiet bliss	K2
And all the while said he to know	L2
That we were in a world of woe	L2
On such an earth as this	K2
	-
And then he sometimes interwove	M2
Fond thoughts about a father's love	M2
For there said he are spun	T
Around the heart such tender ties	N2
That our own children to our eyes	N2
Are dearer than the sun	T
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Sweet Ruth and could you go with me	Q
My helpmate in the woods to be	Q
Our shed at night to rear	W
Or run my own adopted bride	K
A sylvan huntress at my side	K
And drive the flying deer	W
	-
Beloved Ruth No more he said	K
The wakeful Ruth at midnight shed	K
A solitary tear	J2
She thought again and did agree	Q
With him to sail across the sea	Q
And drive the flying deer	W
	-
And now as fitting is and right	K
We in the church our faith will plight	K
A husband and a wife	M2
Even so they did and I may say	L
That to sweet Ruth that happy day	L
Was more than human life	M2
	-
Through dream and vision did she sink	O2
Delighted all the while to think	O2
That on those lonesome floods	F
And green savannahs she should share	J2
His board with lawful joy and bear	J2
His name in the wild woods	I
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But as you have before been told	K
This Stripling sportive gay and bold	K
And with his dancing crest	K
So beautiful through savage lands	P2
Had roamed about with vagrant bands	P2
Of Indians in the West	K
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The wind the tempest roaring high	M2
The tumult of a tropic sky	M2
Might well be dangerous food	K
For him a Youth to whom was given	T
So much of earth so much of heaven	T
And such impetuous blood	K
	-
Whatever in those climes he found	K
Irregular in sight or sound	K
Did to his mind impart	K
A kindred impulse seemed allied	K
To his own powers and justified	K
The workings of his heart	K
	-
Nor less to feed voluptuous thought	K
The beauteous forms of nature wrought	K
Fair trees and gorgeous flowers	C2
The breezes their own languor lent	K
The stars had feelings which they sent	K
Into those favoured bowers	C2
	-
Yet in his worst pursuits I ween	T
That sometimes there did intervene	T
Pure hopes of high intent	K
For passions linked to forms so fair	J2
And stately needs must have their share	J2
Of noble sentiment	K
	-
But ill he lived much evil saw	E
With men to whom no better law	E
Nor better life was known	T
Deliberately and undeceived	K
Those wild men's vices he received	K
And gave them back his own	T
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His genius and his moral frame	P
Were thus impaired and he became	P
The slave of low desires	C2
A Man who without self control	Q2
Would seek what the degraded soul	Q2
Unworthily admires	R2
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And yet he with no feigned delight	K
Had wooed the Maiden day and night	K
Had loved her night and morn	T
What could he less than love a Maid	K
Whose heart with so much nature played	K
So kind and so forlorn	T
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Sometimes most earnestly he said	K
O Ruth I have been worse than dead	K
False thoughts thoughts bold and vain	T
Encompassed me on every side	K
When I in confidence and pride	K
Had crossed the Atlantic main	T
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Before me shone a glorious world	K
Fresh as a banner bright unfurled	K
To music suddenly	Q
I looked upon those hills and plains	S2
And seemed as if let loose from chains	S2
To live at liberty	Q
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No more of this for now by thee	Q
Dear Ruth more happily set free	Q
With nobler zeal I burn	T
My soul from darkness is released	K
Like the whole sky when to the east	K
The morning doth return	T
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Full soon that better mind was gone	T
No hope no wish remained not one	T
They stirred him now no more	M
New objects did new pleasure give	M2
And once again he wished to live	M2
As lawless as before	M
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Meanwhile as thus with him it fared	K
They for the voyage were prepared	K
And went to the sea shore	M
But when they thither came the Youth	T2
Deserted his poor Bride and Ruth	T2
Could never find him more	M
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God help thee Ruth Such pains she had	K
That she in half a year was mad	K
And in a prison housed	K
And there with many a doleful song	Z
Made of wild words her cup of wrong	Z
She fearfully caroused	K
	-
Yet sometimes milder hours she knew	T
Nor wanted sun nor rain nor dew	T
Nor pastimes of the May	L
They all were with her in her cell	U2
And a clear brook with cheerful knell	U2
Did o'er the pebbles play	L
	-
When Ruth three seasons thus had lain	T
There came a respite to her pain	T
She from her prison fled	K
But of the Vagrant none took thought	K
And where it liked her best she sought	K
Her shelter and her bread	K
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Among the fields she breathed again	T
The master current of her brain	T
Ran permanent and free	Q
And coming to the Banks of Tone	T
There did she rest and dwell alone	T
Under the greenwood tree	Q
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The engines of her pain the tools	V2
That shaped her sorrow rocks and pools	V2
And airs that gently stir	F2
The vernal leaves she loved them still	D
Nor ever taxed them with the ill	D
Which had been done to her	F2
	-
A Barn her 'winter' bed supplies	N2
But till the warmth of summer skies	N2
And summer days is gone	T
And all do in this tale agree	Q
She sleeps beneath the greenwood tree	Q
And other home hath none	T
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An innocent life yet far astray	L
And Ruth will long before her day	L
Be broken down and old	K
Sore aches she needs must have	M2