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Title: The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky
to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County.

Author: Eugenia Dunlap Potts

Release Date: March 10, 2010 [EBook #31594]

Language: English

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THE
SONG OF LANCASTER,
KENTUCKY.

TO THE
STATESMEN, SOLDIERS, AND CITIZENS OF GARRARD COUNTY.

BY
EUGENIA DUNLAP POTTS,

MAY, 1874.

CAMBRIDGE:
__Printed at the Riverside Press.__
1876.

NOTE.

The writer of the following little history has presumed to borrow the
peculiar style of versification from Longfellow's celebrated Song of
Hiawatha.

She has carefully examined the records within reach for the facts of her
story. Should important omissions occur, it will be due to the meagerness
of existing evidence.

May events so dear to hearts now at rest forever, be perpetuated in the
memory of the present generation.

EUGENIA D. POTTS.

Lancaster, _May, 1874._

THE SONG OF LANCASTER.

CANTO I.
PRIMEVAL DAYS.

Hear a song of ancient story,
Of a city on a hillside,
Of the valleys all about it,
Of the forest and the wildwood,
Of the deer that stalked within it,
And the birds that flew above it,
And the wolves and bears around it,
Sole possessors and retainers
Of the silent territory.
Hear the song of its high mountains
Of its gushing rills and streamlets,
Of its leaping, rolling rivers,
Of the meadows