Selected Poetry.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 11, 19 January 1870, Page 7

Selected Poetry.

THE GRAVE IN THE EAR WEST. A lonely spot, ami a lonely grave, On the bank of tho beautiful river, Where willows droop and aspens wave, And their shadows across it quiver. No sculpturod marble to tell the name Of the sleeper who rests below ; Or to say that a traveller, unknown to fame, Was buried hero long ago. Only a smooth and graßsy mound, By tho side of the beautiful river, And a rough gray stone with mosses crowned, Whero the scattered sunbeams quiver, To tell of the glad young life that beat In tho silent breast below ; And the high hopes quenoh'd by the arrow fleet From the treacherous red man's bow, Only these the hunter's tale to tell, Who found him beside the river, And saw from him his life-blood well, While his spirit sought its Giver, Only theso to say that with rovered tread They buried him 'neath the willow, And placed the stone above his head That had boen his dying pillow— Only these to speak of the mother's Woe, Too deep for words to measure, Whose boy was laid here so long a<*o— H«r lone heart's only treosuro,