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Title: Indian Legends and Other Poems

Author: Mary Gardiner Horsford

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INDIAN LEGENDS

AND

OTHER POEMS.

INDIAN LEGENDS

AND

Other Poems.

BY

MARY GARDINER HORSFORD.

NEW YORK:
J. C. DERBY, 119 NASSAU STREET.

BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & CO.
CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY.

1855.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
MARY GARDINER HORSFORD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

HOLMAN & GRAY, Printers and Stereotypers.

TO MY FATHER,

SAMUEL S. GARDINER, ESQ.,

This Volume is Inscribed,

AS A

SLIGHT TESTIMONIAL OF A DAUGHTER'S GRATITUDE

AND AFFECTION.

CONTENTS.

INDIAN LEGENDS.

PAGE
THE THUNDERBOLT 11

THE PHANTOM BRIDE 16

THE LAUGHING WATER 23

THE LAST OF THE RED MEN 27

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE PILGRIM'S FAST 36

PLEURS 40

THE LEGEND OF THE IRON CROSS 46

MY NATIVE ISLE 53

THE LOST PLEIAD 57

THE VESPER CHIME 60

THE MANIAC 68

THE VOICE OF THE DEAD 72

"A DREAM THAT WAS NOT ALL A DREAM" 75

THE JUDGMENT OF THE DEAD 78

THE HIGHLAND GIRL'S LAMENT 82

TO MY SISTER ON HER BIRTHDAY 89

THE POET'S LESSON