“Sleep, wearied one! and in the dreaming land Shouldst thou to-morrow with thy mother meet.[39] Oh! tell her spirit, that the white man’s hand Hath plucked the thorns of sorrow from thy feet; While I in lonely wilderness shall greet Thy little foot-prints—or by traces know The fountain, where at noon I thought it sweet To feed thee with the quarry of my bow, And poured the lotus-horn,[43] or slew the mountain roe. XXVI. “Adieu! sweet scion of the rising sun! But should affliction’s storms thy blossom mock Then come again—my own adopted one! And I will graft thee on a noble stock: The crocodile, the condor of the rock,[44] Shall be the pastime of thy sylvan wars; And I will teach thee, in the battle’s shock, To pay with Huron blood thy father’s scars, And gratulate his soul rejoicing in the stars!” XXVII. So finished he the rhyme (howe’er uncouth) That true to nature’s fervid feelings ran; (And song is but the eloquence of truth:) Then forth uprose that lone way-faring man;[44] But dauntless he, nor chart, nor journey’s plan In woods required, whose trainèd eye was keen As eagle of the wilderness, to scan His path, by mountain, swamp, or deep ravine, Or ken far friendly huts on good savannahs green. XXVIII. Old Albert saw him from the valley’s side— His pirogue launched—his pilgrimage begun— Far, like the red-bird’s wing he seemed to glide; Then dived, and vanished in the woodlands dun. Oft, to that spot by tender memory won, Would Albert climb the promontory’s height, If but a dim sail glimmered in the sun; But never more, to bless his longing sight, Was Outalissi hailed, with bark and plumage bright. [29] See Notes at the end of the Volume. [30] Scotland. [31] The Gaelic appellation for the porpoise. [32] A great whirlpool near the island of Jura.—See Notes. [33] See Notes at the end of the Volume. [34] The wampum, offered in token of amity.—See Notes. [35] The Indian God of War. [36] Spirit.—See Notes. [37] A kind of soup.—See Notes. [38] The Indians are distinguished both personally and by tribes by the name of particular animals, whose qualities they affect to resemble, either for cunning, strength, swiftness, or other qualities:—as the eagle, the serpent, the fox, or bear.—See Notes. [39] See Notes at the end of the Volume. [40] _Calumet of peace._—The calumet is the Indian name for the ornamented pipe of friendship, which they smoke as a pledge of amity.—See Notes. [41] _Tree-rocked cradle._—The Indian mothers suspend their children in their cradles from the boughs of trees, and let them be rocked by the wind.—See Notes. [42] Moccasins are a sort of Indian buskin. [43] From a flower shaped like a horn, which Chateaubriand presumes to be of the lotus kind, the Indians in their travels through the desert often find a draught of dew purer than any other water. [44] See Notes. GERTRUDE OF WYOMING. PART II. I.