Volume 1

Poems / [Robert Bloomfield].

  • Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823
Date:
1809
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Poems / [Robert Bloomfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    American Indians. Or who predict, with bosom all unblest. An everlasting fever in the West ? Forbid it, Heav'n '.—Hope cheers us with a smile. The sun of Mercy's risen on our isle : Its beams already, o'er th' Atlantic wave, Pierce the dark forests of the suffering brave : There, e'en th' abandon'd sick imbib'd'a glow, When warrior nations, resting on the bow, Astonish'd heard the joyful rumour rise. And call'd the council of their great and wise : The truth by female pray'rs was urg'd along, Youth ceas'd the chorus of the warrior song, And present ills bade present feelings press With all the eloquence of deep distress; Till forth their chiefs* o'er dying thousands trod To seek the white man and his bounteous God: * Tlie chiefs of tkc Cherokee Indians, in North America, have npplied- .0 the governuit-nt ol' tlie Lnited States i'or infgrniutiua ou the subject oi Vaccine luoculatiou, and have spread'Uic practice in the Woods