INDIAN LEGENDS AND OTHER POEMS ***
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INDIAN LEGENDS
AND
OTHER POEMS.
INDIAN LEGENDS
AND
Other Poems.
BY
MARY GARDINER HORSFORD.
NEW YORK: J. C. DERBY, 119 NASSAU STREET.
BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & CO. CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY.
1855.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by MARY GARDINER HORSFORD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
HOLMAN & GRAY, Printers and Stereotypers.
TO MY FATHER,
SAMUEL S. GARDINER, ESQ.,
This Volume is Inscribed,
AS A
SLIGHT TESTIMONIAL OF A DAUGHTER'S GRATITUDE
AND AFFECTION.
CONTENTS.
INDIAN LEGENDS.
PAGE THE THUNDERBOLT 11
THE PHANTOM BRIDE 16
THE LAUGHING WATER 23
THE LAST OF THE RED MEN 27
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE PILGRIM'S FAST 36
PLEURS 40
THE LEGEND OF THE IRON CROSS 46
MY NATIVE ISLE 53
THE LOST PLEIAD 57
THE VESPER CHIME 60
THE MANIAC 68
THE VOICE OF THE DEAD 72
"A DREAM THAT WAS NOT ALL A DREAM" 75
THE JUDGMENT OF THE DEAD 78
THE HIGHLAND GIRL'S LAMENT 82
TO MY SISTER ON HER BIRTHDAY 89
THE POET'S LESSON 92
MADELINE.--A LEGEND OF THE MOHAWK 95
THE DEFORMED ARTIST 104
THE CHILD'S APPEAL 110
THE DYING YEAR 115
SONG OF THE NEW YEAR 119
I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY 123
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM 126
THE FIRST LOOK 132
THE DAUGHTER OF JEPHTHAH AMONG THE MOUNTAINS 135
MONA LISA 141
SPRING LILIES 145
LINES TO D. G. T., OF SHERWOOD 149
LITTLE KATE 152
A THOUGHT OF THE STARS 155
A MOTHER'S PRAYER 160
NOTES 165
INDIAN LEGENDS.
