by Charles James Sprague (1823 - 1903)

The Indians
Language: English 
Alas! for them their day is o'er,
No more, no more for them the wild deer bounds,
The plough is on their hunting grounds;
The pale man's axe rings through their woods,
The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods;
Beyond the mountains of the west
Their children go to die.

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