Monday, April 5, 2010
An Indian At The Burial-Place Of His Fathers. Comments
Rating: ★2.8
It is the spot I came to seek,--
My fathers' ancient burial-place
Ere from these vales, ashamed and weak,
Withdrew our wasted race.
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7/31/2025 2:19:00 AM # 1.0.0
This is a remarkable poem, in that it evokes the ecological and ethnic concerns of a much later day than its date of origin. I don't know if the streams really did run much fuller, as Bryant's Indian asserts, when his people were the land's masters, but it's a very arresting image. Does it remind anyone else of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring?