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 PA^RT I. 
 
 SCENES IN INDIA, 
 
 I. 
 
 Once more before you stands the Carrier-boy, 
 Freighted with the quintessence of the year, 
 
 With Death's blue lights, and Life's bouquets of joy. 
 And ^gns and wonders gathered far and near, 
 
 Knough to satisfy, but not to cloy 
 The njeditative mind and gentle ear ; 
 
 A Panoramic sett of tableaus showing 
 
 How this old whirligig, the Earth, is going 
 
 A. 
 
 No easy task, so various are her phases, 
 Some comic and some tragic : h^ire you so*; 
 
 ITow crinoline expands to swell your praisea : 
 How politicians and the truth agree ; 
 
 And there how war, like Satan's kitchen blaztiw. 
 Extinguished only by a crimson sea, 
 
 Whifh, if you follow, I will now explain — , 
 
 TFp with tho (lurtain, and let ordw reign, 
 
CARRIER'S OFFERING. 
 
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 There rides upon the bosom of the wind 
 That billows from the East a fearful wail, 
 
 And on the crescent of the sky, behind 
 We trace the winding's of a gory irail ; 
 
 So must I show how men with hell combined 
 Turn the meek lieavens sorroNvful and pale ; 
 
 Yet need I, Anglo-Saxon, utter more 
 
 Than Nena Sahib, devil ! ond Cawnpore. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Ix)ok on that land, the birth-placoof the sun, 
 From Madras to Lahore, and from the feet 
 
 Of Mount Djawiiar westward to Puttun ; 
 And see in many a jungle, house, and street, 
 
 What deeds the dusky miscreants have done ; 
 How many English hearts ha\'e ceased to beat, — 
 
 The infant's and the mother's ! Pagan brutes, — 
 
 In blood you sowed, in blood now reap tl)e fruits I 
 
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 that my words were swords, and each endowed 
 With life, and lightening s\ eed to fly and strike 
 
 The woman-murdering, baby-burning crowd, 
 To cleave them and annihilate them quit<v: 
 
 Nor need I blush to parody aloud 
 The Roman's* wish, — our heart-pangs make it right. 
 
 That the whole Sepoy race had but one neck — 
 
 That I might break it at a single thwack ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 Look at those boats that bear away the few. 
 
 Whom gallant Wherler saved from day to day, 
 Till close and closer still around him drew 
 
 The living wall of Nana's fierce array ; 
 And then they promised. Nana and his crew. 
 
 That those in safety should he borne away. 
 You see how faithfully he kept his wonl,— 
 Faithful as strpenttbat has charraal the bird. 
 
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 Along the Ganges' bank their rifles blaze, 
 And children and their mothers leap in air : 
 
 Husbands and brothers, it is vain to raise 
 
 Your hands and voices — nierey dwells not there. 
 
 Sad is the nightfall of your golden days, 
 More sad that death is nuitod with despair ; 
 
 IJut the fair forms that 'scape that storm of fire, 
 
 O how will they survive, and how expire ? 
 
 VIII. 
 
 How they survived, let It be draped hi tears ! 
 
 And how thev died, it is too nmch to tell ! 
 Hut in the voices of the coming years 
 
 A shuddering sound w ill syllab!e, The Well .' .' .' 
 A-ud send its echo to the upper spheres. 
 
 Ye who can brook to guess at what befel, 
 \jOok down, look only once, and gather there 
 How perishetl wife, and child, and maiden fair. 
 
 IX. 
 
 But Na»a's rufliuns, some at least have rued 
 
 That lirainah* ever made them ; siezed and bouii J 
 
 To the hot cannon's mouth (a fate too good) ; 
 
 Their black hearts blown away have licked the gi oat.d 
 
 And famished jackals have ^Kien fiirnished food 
 From odds and ends that could not iill be found. 
 
 Such is the dreadful warning must be shown 
 
 To those whose gods are cattle, wood, and stout 
 
 X. 
 
 Dut turn we now unto a faii'Cr scene, 
 The leaguered walls of Delhi, — ha ! ha ! here 
 
 The Scottish sabre is descending keen ; 
 
 And tkin's shout, and England's hearty cheer 
 
 Tell what the throbs of hallowed vengeance mean. — 
 Tell that the end of treachtry is near, — 
 
 'I'ell that the name of Briton withei-s never. 
 
 But blossoms out in every zone for ever. 
 
 • The creating Deity of Hindoo Mytkology. 
 
C A R li 1 E K ' S O F F K R I N (J 
 
 XT. 
 
 Seo how the aieffc progresHod, itH duriii}^ few, 
 Assailed by frequent sorties, ten to one, 
 
 Drove back within their walls the craven crew, 
 And I'orward urged the skill-conducted plan — 
 
 Till oanie the hour, to God and woman due ! 
 Wlien through the ranks a joyftil murmur ran, — 
 
 To-duy wc storm their gates, the train ! the train '. 
 
 And tierce Impatience stamped upon the plain, 
 
 XII. 
 
 See those bi'ave men, — immortal be their names. 
 
 Bearing the powder-bags to that huge gate. 
 'I'hiough which is pointed scores of deadly aims ; 
 
 Hut .spite of all, those iron mouths of fate, 
 'I'hey place the powder, — fall ! and instant flames. 
 
 And shock, and roar, and struggle desperate, 
 Trouble the heavens : Burgess,* let thy .'•oul 
 With brave Carmichael's,* view the torrent roll. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Right through tiw C'aahraere gate, now blown away . 
 
 The steely tempest drives ; and far along 
 Witli lion-roar, the Briton holds his way. 
 
 O'er ramparts, blazing bastions, and among 
 The routed devils, flying from his sway, 
 
 And begging Vishnuf with a bitter song. 
 They'd shown no mercy, and no mercy found. 
 But reeled to earth with many a purple wound. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Yet see, amid the carnage and the strife, 
 The Briton's sign of nobleness prevailed ; 
 
 Sacred is held the honor and the life 
 Of woman, and of child ; though his had wailedL 
 
 And shuddered down to night beneath the knife 
 Of their accursed kin, — with plaudits hailed. 
 
 Thus be it ever ; let man war with man ; 
 
 But spare fier veins from the inhuman }>la)t. 
 
 * These two intrepidheroes fell " riddled with balls " in tlu- 
 exerution of the task described. 
 r The prenerving and pervading Deity of the Hindoo*- 
 
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 XV. 
 
 The swill, of loot, with terror in their eyes, 
 llulil to the otutt, and o'er the Jumna stream 
 
 t.'arry the slianie of Peliii'.^ «h-eud .surprise, 
 To liiose wIioHtill of PuKun eoii(|uest dream ; 
 
 Pur^iieil, their King in eaptured,— Huppliunt sighs, 
 With uahcn lips, he urges for the gleam 
 
 Of moan existeneo, urgra. and is heard, 
 
 Though guilty, not the worst, and age is spared. 
 
 XVI 
 
 A tear for all who ncath that burning sky, 
 
 With gallant Xieholson^ in battle fell ; 
 Ik'auty and Vulor linked will often sigh 
 
 O'er the white monuments, that soon will tell 
 Whore they in honor's shroud for ever lie, 
 
 Heci^ss of marriage ehimc or funeral knell. 
 Their Country grieves, the World's great heart is sore, 
 And sobs beneath the stars ; their march is o'er ! 
 
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 Meantime, great Ilaveloek's Highland chtels advance, 
 TLrough the fierce plains of Oude ; on every hand 
 
 He aee.s the swarming natives round him dance, 
 Threat'ning destruction to his fearless band. 
 
 But on he leads them,— victory in his glance. 
 Till front of bleeding Lucknow's face they stand, 
 
 Just in the nick of time, reporters say, 
 
 Defences ready to be blown away. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 O blest relief ! what a joyful shock, 
 
 Shook the faint watchers who had looked for aid 
 
 'J'hrough desperate weeks, which nearly seemed to mock 
 I'he heroe's hope, and trusi of those who }ira}cd— 
 
 The angel weepers, leaning on the rock 
 Of Him who called to Peter when afraid, 
 
 Walking upon the waters ;— Woman i'air, 
 
 God and his upper angels heard you there. 
 
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 XIX. 
 
 .MiiM\ , many pliicw still remain, 
 
 Atri'ii. uimI Kiittvffliur. and Diniiporo, 
 VV'lii'n! hlntHl of irino<vnls uiid iiiotherH slain, 
 
 |)yc Uh' wliiUi wails ami linti'ln nl' tlio dodr. 
 I'ml Ik'iv um'k Syn){»athy recoils in puin. 
 
 Willi iiallctti' and hor brush, she can no more; 
 Appulled and .shocked, she sickens at the view, 
 And turns, my happy country, tunw to you. 
 
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 l,eiiv»' we the tiffor'H home, and liithorwari/, 
 Like (he advancintj sun, salute the West ; 
 
 I'iiirojK^ has nou<rht just now to claim ro^anl ; 
 For there the Dove of J*ejice .still keeps her nest. 
 
 'rhou^h l()n<,f-ra(;ed prose declares that times are hard. 
 So hen', at length our weary «fyes may n># 
 
 On the {icIobeV eveiiin<j disc, wliicli as he reckoned. 
 
 l'.riijg;> the pli'iwed Carrier round to Section Sramu 
 
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 The red-ftiC(!d Hun cornea staggering up the eaal, 
 Like a Boa-captain drunk ; 'tis New-ywu .•< day, 
 
 And though the cold and taxes have incroaat'd. 
 And creditors declare they can't dchiy, 
 
 We'll liave our tling, and spread the generous feawt, 
 And give our thou<rht.H, — poor slave.-;, an hour of pin/ 
 
 Hark to the merry bells and skater's shout : 
 
 The dog barks joyous for the young are out. 
 
 II. 
 
 1^ wise to cast our dusty cares behind, 
 
 And let the forge of our ambition cool, 
 And look abroad with an expanded mind, 
 
 And take fresh lessons out of Nature's School *, 
 For Art is narrow, seltishuess is blind, 
 
 And these two jiigg'ing propliets seek to rule 
 The brooding world ; but i^he on full-grown wing. 
 Will yet to a new love's empyrean ?pring. 
 
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 III. 
 
 Away with croaking, 'tis a day of cliocr, 
 And blessings thick as martin birds in June, 
 
 Arc perching '57 on tliy bier, 
 And chant thy epiccdium in a tune, 
 
 Consoling to thy young successor's ear ; 
 We Uiy thee decently beneath the moon. 
 
 Ami like some widows, beautifully bold. 
 
 Dance on your grave before your shins are cold, 
 
 IV. 
 
 But let us ponder how the great world Wiig;, 
 A portion we have seen, and now review 
 
 The land where Jonathan on tiptoe brags 
 ITiat he can " lick creation ' black and blue. 
 
 Your Carrier- bard his pardon huml)ly beg-s. 
 And would suggest the boast may all be true ; 
 
 But in such case the transcendental elf. 
 
 Must whip — as he is doing now — himself. 
 
 V. 
 
 Far from the friendly line that doth divide 
 The beaver's from the eagle's home, we see 
 
 How Mormon Saints the stars and stnpes deride. 
 And hold that they of sovereign right are free, 
 
 With fifty handsome wives to walk or ride, 
 And multiply by Brigham Young's decree ; 
 
 And Elder Knapp has made them swear, btj Joe, 
 
 That they shall die or flog the heat/ten foe 
 
 VI. 
 
 So Utah pipes ; and Kansas still remains 
 Uncertain, how the scale of fate may turn ; 
 
 Whether her youthful limbs in southern chains 
 Through a long night of slavery shall burn ; 
 
 Or like the wind upon her sunny plains, 
 Unraanacled, tor ever nobly siraru 
 
 'J'he tyrant's offer, and the traitor's sham, 
 
 Free from the curse which Rabbins trace to Ham. 
 
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 Hut thoiifrh alarm is muttcrinj^ here ami tliorc 
 Aroiiiul out conlinont, the song of peace 
 warltlod on our hearths atul in the air, 
 And from t!ie honest husbanchnan's increase— 
 
 The c«rth, o'er-bunlened. sweats, and everywhere 
 Onr country's children hold a precious lease 
 
 On the bright futm-e ; therefore do 1 say. 
 
 Shout till you'n.^ hoarse, my boys ! shout all to^day. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Some hold that Ottawa, St. Lawrence some. 
 
 Shall be the pet of Commerce yet unborn ; 
 And rival sections, each holds up his thumb 
 
 And laughs his honest neighbor into scorn. 
 Even I, in such a case would not be dumb. 
 
 But time forbids to blow my partial horn, 
 And whether this or that great plan succeed. 
 We know our country glory-ward shall speed. 
 
 IX. 
 
 With nerves of wire, strange mediums of thought, 
 And rails that vibrate to the frantic tread 
 
 Of firey dragons, hunted down and caught, 
 And by the hand of Science tamely led 
 
 And harnessed to those painttxl mansions, fraught 
 With life and beauty, (item, gingerbread !) 
 
 All these with fleets upon her lakes and streams 
 
 Are raw material for a Poet's dreams. 
 
 X. 
 
 But to th"^ Lumberman wide praise ia due, 
 
 No isolated, petty power ia he ; 
 His strength is normal, circulating through 
 
 The Body Politic, and long shall be. 
 As it hath been since sailed Champlain's canoe. 
 
 Acknowledged great from Huron to the sea : 
 The Farmer's Pioneer, he boldly leads, 
 And hungry Commerce on his bounty feeds. 
 
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 VVhother in winter glooms with sounding stroke, 
 Far iibove Allumot, lie fells the piuc, 
 
 Or hews at Mattawan the giant oak ; 
 Or near the Turtle Lake.-, his utmost line. 
 
 Shakes the tall Elm till in her ermine cloak, 
 She thunders down in snow-smoke, sparkling fine : 
 
 In every place he cheers the houseless wood, 
 
 Sublime in hardship I lord of Solitude! 
 
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 His heart is fearless as his arm is strong. 
 
 And on the river bank I've often stood. 
 Where Chaudicre Rapid roars his drunken song, 
 
 And watched him fighiing with the wrathy flood, 
 Steering his crib with skilful art along, 
 
 'i'ill down the Slide its jout aey it pursued. 
 Or wrecked amid the whirl of tvturing shocks, 
 Oowned the bald foreheads of imperial rocks. 
 
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 N'o dandy's life is his : on yonder lake — 
 That bears St. Peter's name, (and must be meant 
 
 To point the hour when, for his Muster's sake. 
 The rude Disciple, with a furious bent, 
 
 Drew his hot sword, resolved at once to take 
 A life, or lop the ear of miscreant). 
 
 On that dark lake of storms, behold again 
 
 The leading raftniau shouting to his men. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Onward Improvement treads. Few years ago, 
 A chief of the Alf.;onquins passed at dawn, 
 
 With knife, and tomahawk, and painted bow, 
 Down the wild Ottawa, and climbed upon 
 
 A rocky pinnacle, which in the glow 
 Of boyhood he had loved, called Ouisrau. 
 
 I'roudly he stood there, listening to the roar 
 
 Of Rapids soujiding, sounding evermore. 
 
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 All flao was silence, save the droary ^onrid 
 or woodcock -'iwcking on the hollow tree." 
 
 Or dry brush cracklino: Ironi the sudden bound 
 Of startled deer, tliat snorts and liidls to 3(y\ 
 
 Then onward oer the leat-enennibored ^'rnimd 
 Through his jrrecn world of beauty, c ver free : 
 
 Such was the scene— no white man's rhiniiicy iiiph. 
 
 And joy sat plumed in the young warrior's eye. 
 
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 No white man's axe his hnntinn; .irroimd had marred : 
 The primal grandeur of the solemn wo(ids. 
 
 When Summer all her golden gates nnbarrf>d, 
 And Innig voluptuous o'er the shouting floods. 
 
 Or when white Winter gave the rich rcAvard. 
 All suited with his uncorrupted moods. 
 
 For all was built, voiced, rooled with suji and cloud. 
 
 IJy the Great .Spirit unto whom he bowed. 
 
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 The gray of morn was edgoing into white. 
 
 And down Rock-Oitsioau the Indian passed. 
 Like a thin shadow ; soon the rosy light 
 
 Lay on the maple leaf, and dew drops cast 
 A lustrous chartn on many a mossy height. 
 
 And sfjuirrels broke out in chatter, as the bla.«t 
 Swayed the tall pine tops where they leaped, and made 
 Onind oi-gan-music in the greon-wood shade. 
 
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 Again the Indian comes, [some years liavc rolled], 
 Down the wild Ottawa, and stands upon 
 
 His boyhood haunt, and with an eye still bold 
 Looks round, and sighs for glni'ics that aic gon-'. 
 
 For ill! is changed, twccpt the Fall tliat told 
 And tells its Maker still, and Ovi:-km. 
 
 Sadly he leans against an evening sky, 
 
 'iVanstigured in its ebb of rosv dve ! 
 
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 He sees a VAty there : the bluzing forge. 
 The mason's hammer on the shaping stone, 
 
 Ureat wheels along the stream revolving large, 
 
 And swift machinery's whirr, and click, and groan, 
 
 A nd the fair bridge that spans the yawning gorge, 
 Which drinks the spray of Chaudiore, leaping prone, 
 
 And spires of silver hue, and belfry's toll ; 
 
 All strike, like fifty knives, the Red Man's soul I 
 
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 Wide the arena of the open space, 
 Wiiere broods the City, like a mighty bird, 
 
 And the red Spectre from his rock can trace 
 Her flock ot villages, where lately stirred 
 
 The bear and wolf, tenacious of their place. 
 
 And where the wild cat with her kittens purred, 
 
 Now, while the folds of eve invest the land, 
 
 What myriad lights flash out on every hand. 
 
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 The dead day's glory, interwove with brown, 
 Has wrapped the watcher on Ouiseau Rock, 
 
 And o'er him hangs bright Hesi^er, like a crown, 
 As if the hand of Destiny would mock 
 
 His soul's eclipse and sorrow-sculptured frown : 
 Thick as wild pigeons, dusky memories flock 
 
 O'er the wide wind-fall of his fated race. 
 
 And thus he murmured to his native place : 
 
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 " Our woods are gone, slain by the white man's hand. 
 And pile<i in heaps to glut the fiend of fire. 
 
 The coward ox has bowed to his command. 
 And bore the slavish yoke through snow and mire ; 
 
 And far away — I scarce can understand — 
 Rush fiery buSaloes. as if in ire, 
 
 Dragging great wigwams o'er an iron path, 
 
 Wliich soundeth lil.o a far off tempest's wrath, 
 
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 '• Vr'mn] of my youth, Ouiseau He^chit, adieu ! 
 
 No more shall 1 revisit tluH), no more 
 Gaze Ironi thy suiumit on the upper blue, 
 
 And listen to the rapid's l?attle-roar ; 
 I go, my elder bnjther, to pni-sue 
 
 The Elk's great shadow on a distant shore, 
 VVhere Nature, still unwounded, wears her charms, 
 And calls me, like a mother, to her arms." 
 
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 Is that poetical? Appollo nods, 
 
 And some in cushioned chairs have gravely said 
 That savage life is happier by all odds. 
 
 'I'han civilized society, well bi-ed ; * 
 Just let the sages try it. fey the gods, 
 
 I think I see them blanketed and fed 
 On the raw buttock of a grizly bear, 
 And sleeping on the snow in open air. 
 
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 For my part, give me " bread and cheese." — and more, 
 The wine of knowledge pressed from every age, 
 
 And well-filled honeycombs of bardic lore, ♦ 
 
 Rare sweet'ner of my earthly pilgrimage ; 
 
 But, lest my audience vote me down a bore, 
 From length of wind, and hiss me off the stage, 
 
 I make my bow, and trust I've nothing said 
 
 Unworthy of a Briton's heart and head. 
 
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 esd&j, and defended it against all Europe for many years. 
 
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