<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576944" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Last Reservation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sullen and dull, in the September day, <br>On the bank of the river, <br>They waited the boat that should bear them away <br>From their poor homes forever. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For progress strides on, and the order had gone <br>To these wards of the nation: <br>'Give us land and more room,' was the cry, 'and move on <br>To the next reservation.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With her babe, she looked back at her home 'neath the trees <br>From which they were driven, <br>Where the last camp-fire's smoke, borne out on the breeze, <br>Rose slowly toward heaven. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behind her, fair fields, and the forest and glade, <br>The home of her nation; <br>Around her, the gleam of the bayonet and blade <br>Of civilization. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Clasping close to her bosom the small dusky form <br>With tender caressing, <br>She bent down, on the cheek of her babe soft and warm <br>A mother's kiss pressing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A splash in the river--the column moves on <br>Close-guarded and narrow, <br>Noting as little as the two that are gone <br>As the fall of a sparrow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only an Indian! Wretched, obscure, <br>To refinement a stranger, <br>And a babe, that was born in a wigwam as poor <br>And rude as a manger. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moved on--to make room for the growth in the West <br>Of a brave Christian nation, <br>Moved on--thank God, forever at rest <br>In the last reservation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walter+Learned">Walter Learned</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576944" data-title="The Last Reservation de Walter Learned" data-description="Sullen and dull, in the September day, On the bank of the river, They waited the boat that should bear them away From their poor homes forever. For progress strides on, and the order had gone To these wards of the nation: 'Give us land and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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