Purity.

"Where once the red deer, wolf or bear,     Pursued by hardy Indian braves,     Lay low, in cunning grove or lair,     And listen'd to the rolli"

"The grass is wet with heavy dew,     The leaves have changed their bright green hue,      To brighter red, or golden;     The morning sun shine"

"When wooded hill, and grassy plain,      With nature's beauties, gaily dress'd,     Lay calm beneath the red man's reign,      And smiling, in"

"I've had my share of bright employ,      My share of pain and blame,     But thro' it all, I've thought, with joy,      Of tender woman's name."

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"