RETALIATION 373 ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE INDEPENDENCE 374 THE BROOK OF THE VALLEY 376 APPENDIX. A. THE AMERICAN VILLAGE, &C. THE AMERICAN VILLAGE 381 THE FARMER'S WINTER EVENING 394 THE MISERABLE LIFE OF A PEDAGOGUE 396 UPON A VERY ANCIENT DUTCH HOUSE ON LONG ISLAND 399 B. LIST OF OMITTED POEMS 401 C. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POETRY OF PHILIP FRENEAU 407 INDEX 419 PART IV THE PERIOD OF EDITORSHIP 1790-1797 THE POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU In February, 1790, Freneau left the sea and settled down in the employ of the New York _Daily Advertiser_. During the next seven years he was successively editor of the _National Gazette_, _The Jersey Chronicle_, and _The Time Piece and Literary Companion_. The period ends late in 1797 when he left New York and went for a time to Charleston, South Carolina. NEVERSINK[1] These Hills, the pride of all the coast, To mighty distance seen, With aspect bold and rugged brow, That shade the neighbouring main: These heights, for solitude design'd, This rude, resounding shore-- These vales impervious to the wind, Tall oaks, that to the tempest bend, Half Druid, I adore. From distant lands, a thousand sails Your hazy summits greet-- You saw the angry Briton come, You saw him, last, retreat! With towering crest, you first appear The news of land to tell; To him that comes, fresh joys impart, To him that goes, a heavy heart, The lover's long farewell. 'Tis your's to see the sailor bold,[2] Of persevering mind, To see him rove in search of care, And leave true bliss behind; To see him spread his flowing sails To trace a tiresome road, By wintry seas and tempests chac'd To see him o'er the ocean haste, A comfortless abode! Your thousand springs of waters blue What luxury to sip, As from the mountain's breast they flow To moisten Flora's lip! In vast retirements herd the deer, Where forests round them rise, Dark groves, their tops in æther lost, That, haunted still by Huddy's[3] ghost, The trembling rustic flies. Proud heights! with pain so often seen, (With joy beheld once more) On your firm base I take my stand, Tenacious of the shore:-- Let those who pant for wealth or fame Pursue the watery road;-- Soft sleep and ease, blest days and nights, And health, attend these favourite heights, Retirement's blest abode!