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Pocahontas

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Her story, sure, was fashioned out above,     Ere 't was enacted on the scene below!     For 't was a very miracle of love     When from the savage hawk's nest came the dove     With wings of peace to stay the ordered blow -     The hawk's plumes bloody, but the dove's as snow!     And here my heart oppressed by pleasant tears     Yields to a young girl's half angelic spell -     Yes, for that maiden like a Saint appears;     She needs no fresco, stone, nor shrine to tell     Her story to the people of this Land -     Saint of the Wilderness, enthroned amid     The wooded Minster where the Pagan hid!

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