Our house is broken open at both ends Though deeply set the posts, its timber strong-- From ruthless foes, and traitors masked as friends, Tutored to sing a false but pleasant song The Seneca and Mohawk guarded long Its blood-stained doors:--the _former_ faced the sun In his decline--the _latter_ watched a throng Clouding the eastern hills--their tasks are done; A game for life was played, and prize the white man won. XXXVI. Around me soon will bloom unfading flowers Ye glorious Spirit Islands of the just! No fatal axe will hew away your bowers, Or lay the green-robed forest king in dust: Far from the spoiler's fury, and his lust Of boundless power will I my fathers meet Tiaras wearing never dimm'd by rust, And they, while airs waft music passing sweet, To blest abodes will guide my silver-sandal'd feet. NOTES. _The warrior's right his scalp lock to adorn With eagle plumes in battle he had won._--STANZA IX. No one but a brave who has slain an enemy in battle, is allowed the distinguished honor of wearing eagle feathers. _Rained from her elk-like eyes._--STANZA XII. Objects clear and bright are often compared by the Indian to the elk's eye. The definition of Muskingum is--"clear as an elk's eye." _Born of the foam._--STANZA XXXIV. The red man believes that the whites sprang from the foam of the salt water. * * * * * Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent capitalization (e.g. Gulf vs. gulf), spacing (e.g. north east vs. northeast), and hyphenation (e.g. foot-prints vs. footprints) have been left as in the original. The following changes were made to the text: p. 5: worty to worthy (worthy of the thought and care) p. 6: expreses to expresses (expresses the peculiarities of its own soil) p. 6: Tueton to Teuton (the Teuton, Goth and Magyar) p. 6: maze to maize (crushed their maize) p. 7: Ninevah to Nineveh (buried sites of Nineveh) p. 7: deciples to disciples (disciples of Zoroaster) p. 8: progres to progress (progress of nations) p. 9: Alleghany's to Alleghanies (by the Alleghanies) p. 9: distatant to distant (at distant points) p. 10: Susquehannah to Susquehanna (the Susquehanna, the Delaware and the St. Lawrence) p. 11: acient to ancient (an ancient feature) p. 13: entititled to entitled (Each clan is entitled to a chief.) p. 14: heriditary to hereditary (a hereditary chieftainship) p. 16: eminent to imminent (from imminent peril) p. 20: Heredotus to Herodotus (the period of Herodotus) p. 24: amunition to ammunition (guns and ammunition) p. 25: Ioroquois' to Iroquois' (the Iroquois' powers) p. 25: Vandruiel to Vaudruiel (Vaudruiel, the Governor General of New France) p. 28: beautious to beauteous (beauteous lakes and forests) p. 29: resplendant to resplendent (more learned and resplendent nations) p. 30: oblitered to obliterated (half obliterated trenches)