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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117604" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cherokee</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gaze on this landscape! once in fleet career,<br>The desert chieftain trod exulting here!<br>Cleft with light bark the still and shaded floods,<br>Pierced the recesses of the old gray woods;<br>Pour'd ‘midst their hidden dells his wild halloo,<br>And the light shaft with aim unerring threw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Proud was his spirit, fierce, untamed and free,<br>Scorning to crouch to pain, from death to flee,<br>With feelings suited to his savage state,<br>Faithful alike to friendship or to hate,<br>Seeking no meed beyond a warrior's fame,<br>And fearing nought except a coward's shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These wilds were his;—amidst his chosen dell,<br>Where clustering wild-flowers fringed the gushing well,<br>His hut was rear'd; and there at closing day,<br>He heard his children's laughter-shout of play,<br>While, weary with the chase, his limbs were laid<br>In listless rest beneath the oak-tree's shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then o'er the ocean-sea the white man came,<br>Held to his lips the cup of liquid flame,<br>With smooth, false words, and bold encroaching hand,<br>Wrench'd from the Cherokee his father's land,<br>Still on his fast receding footsteps prest,<br>And urged him onward to the distant west,<br>Till all the precinets of his narrowed ground,<br>Was closely hemm'd with cultured life around,<br>And burning cottages and mangled slain,<br>Had mark'd war's footsteps o'er the ravaged plain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wearied, at length, the pale-brow'd stranger swore,<br>To seek the Indian's hunting grounds no more;<br>Treaties and oaths the solemn compact seal'd,<br>And plenty crown'd once more the blood-stain'd field;<br>Then o'er the red-man's alter'd nature smiled<br>A kindlier spirit, and a soul more mild;<br>Bright knowledge pour'd its sunlight o'er his mind,<br>His feelings soften'd, and his heart refined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No longer then, when pass'd the storm-flash by,<br>He saw the lightning of Manitto's eye,<br>Or listen'd trembling, while his anger spoke,<br>As high o'er head the pealing thunder broke.<br>He learn'd to light in heaven his spirit's flame,<br>And blend a Saviour's with Jehovah's name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then tell us, ye, who have the power to save,<br>Shall all his hopes be crush'd in one wide grave?<br>Shall lawless force, with rude, remorseless hand,<br>Drive out the Indian from his father's land,<br>Burst all the ties that bind the heart to home,<br>And thrust him forth ‘mid distant wilds to roam?<br>Oh no! to mercy's pleading voice give ear,<br>The wak'ning wrath of outraged justice fear,<br>Stain not with broken faith our country's name,<br>Nor weigh her tresses to the dust with shame!<br>Remember yet the solemn pledge you gave,<br>And lift the potent arm to shield and save!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Margaret+Chandler">Elizabeth Margaret Chandler</a> from <i>Poetical Works</i><div class=q>
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