The league of the Iroquois and other legends : from the Indian muse

Vast fields unfenced sare by the purple round
Of the high-arching hearens; the grand on-sweep
Of rivers that far stretch from zone to zone ;
Lakes wide out-reaching the horizon'* bound ;
Hoar mountains wonder-wrapped, sublime and lone ;
Woods that in wild unbroken beauty sleep
Age unto age: a fairer world apart
!
Such, Nature building on her larger plan,
With temples, altars, shrines surpassing Art,
Was once the home of the Primeral Man.