Part 55 (1/2)

_Enter_ LEFROY

_Lefroy_ What tidings have you glean'd of Iena?

_Tecumseh_ My brother meant to wed her to Tarhay-- The chief who led his warriors to ruin; But, in the glooht, She fled into the forest all alone

_Lefroy_ Alone! In the wide forest all alone!

Angels are with her now, for she is dead

_Tecumseh_ You know her to be skilful with the bow

'Tis certain she would strike for soan At the Detroit Are people of our nation, and perchance She fled for shelter there I go at once To join the British force [_Exit_ TEcumSEH

_Lefroy_ But yesterday I cli stairs Of love and hope, and here am quite cast down

My little flower amidst a weedy world, Where art thou now? In deepest forest shade?

Or onward, where the su form Fruited, yet odious with the hidden worm?

Or, farther, by some still sequester'd lake, Loon-haunted, where the sinewy panthers slake Their noon-day thirst, and never voice is heard Joyous of singing waters, breeze or bird, Save their ailings--[_A halloo without_] 'Tis Tecumseh calls!

Oh Iena! If dead, where'er thou art-- Thy saddest grave will be this ruin'd heart! [_Exit_

FOOTNOTES:

[Q] These scenes are enacted at the ”Prophet's Town,” an Indian village, situated at the junction of the Tippecanoe river with the Wabash, the latter a tributary of the Ohio Tecuone on a mission to the Southern Indians to induce them to unite in a confederation of all the Indian tribes, leaving his brother, the Prophet, in charge of the tribes already asse strictly enjoined upon hi-Knives, as the Indians called the his absence General Harrison, Governor of Indiana, and co learned of Tecumseh's plans,to be friendly, sends out some chiefs to meet Harrison By the advice of these chiefs, the Americans encamp on an elevated plateau, near the Prophet's Town,--”a very fitting place,”

to the mind of Harrison's officers, but to the practised eye of Harrison hiht attack by the Indians

He, therefore, very wisely ainst any sudden attack Tecumseh has left behind him, under the protection of the Prophet, his wife, Mamatee, and his niece, Iena He is accolish poet-artist, ”enamoured of Indian life, and in love with Iena” The Prophet, who is hostile to Lefroy, intends to one to intercede with her brother-in-law for Iena, and, if possible, to turn hi foreseen that nothing but combination could prevent the encroach been successfully endeavoring to bring about a union of the tribes who inhabited its valley The Fort Wayne treaties gave a wider scope to his design, and he now originated his great scheme of a federation of the entire red race In pursuance of this object, his exertions, hitherto very arduous, became almost superhuman He made repeated journeys, and visited almost every tribe from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, and even north of them, and far to the west of the Mississippi In order to further his sche reputation as a prophet, and allowed hiain a powerful hold upon the superstitiousand predictions The Prophet professed to have obtained froic bohich possessed miraculous qualities; also a mystic torch, presumably from Nanabush, the keeper of the sacred fire He asserted that a certain belt, said to make those invulnerable who touched it whilst in his hands, was corown from his flesh; and this belt was circulated far and wide by Indian runners, finding its way even to the Red River of the North These, coupled with his oratory and reatly enhanced an influence which was possibly added to by a gloo still by the loss of an eye Unfortunately for Tecumseh's enterprise, the Prophet was more bent upon personal notoriety than upon the welfare of his people; and, whilst professing the latter, indulged his ambition, in Tecumseh's absence, by a precipitate attack upon Harrison's force on the Tippecanoe His defeat discredited his assumption of supernatural powers, led to distrust and defection, and wrecked Tecumseh's plan of independent action But the protection of his people was Tecumseh's sole ambition; and, true states (Fort Malden), in Upper Canada, with a large force, and in the suan that series of services to the British interest which has made his name a household word in Canada, and endeared him to the Canadian heart--_From_ AUTHOR'S NOTE

CV THE RETURN OF THE SWALLOWS

EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE--1849-

”Out in thewith sap,” said the larks, ”and we Shoot into air with our strong young wings Spirally up over level and lea; Come, O Ss, and fly with us Now that horizons are luht, Spreading and kindling, is infinite!”

Far away, by the sea in the south, The hills of olive and slopes of fern Whiten and glow in the sun's long drouth, Under the heavens that bea about in the fragrant air, And heard no sound fro blue

Out of the depths of their soft rich throats Languidly fluted the thrushes, and said: ”Musical thought in theand winter is dead!

Come, O Ss, and stir the air, For the buds are all bursting unaware, And the drooping eaves and the el”

Over the roofs of the white Algiers, Flashi+ngly shadowing the bright bazaar, Flitted the ss, and not one hears The call of the thrushes froh'd the thrushes; then, all at once, Broke out singing the old sweet tones, Singing the bridal of sap and shoot, The tree's slow life between root and fruit