t rejoice!
Ye yet shall echo to Tecumseh's voice.

_Enter_ LEFROY.

_Lefroy._ What tidings have you glean'd of Iena?

_Tecumseh._ My brother meant to wed her to Tarhay--
The chief who led his warriors to ruin;
But, in the gloom and tumult of the night,
She fled into the forest all alone.

_Lefroy._ Alone! In the wide forest all alone!
Angels are with her now, for she is dead.

_Tecumseh._ You know her to be skilful with the bow.
'Tis certain she would strike for some great Lake--
Erie or Michigan. At the Detroit
Are people of our nation, and perchance
She fled for shelter there. I go at once
To join the British force. [_Exit_ TECUMSEH.

_Lefroy._ But yesterday
I climb'd to Heaven upon the shining stairs
Of love and hope, and here am quite cast down.
My little flower amidst a weedy world,
Where art thou now? In deepest forest shade?
Or onward, where the sumach stands array'd
In autumn splendor, its alluring form
Fruited, yet odious with the hidden worm?
Or, farther, by some still sequester'd lake,
Loon-haunted, where the sinewy panthers slake
Their noon-day thirst, and never voice is heard
Joyous of singing waters, breeze or bird,
Save their wild wailings.--[_A halloo without._] 'Tis Tecumseh calls!
Oh Iena! If dead, where'er thou art--
Thy saddest grave will be this ruin'd heart! [_Exit._

FOOTNOTES:

[Q] These scenes are enacted at the "Prophet's Town," an Indian
village, situated at the junction of the Tippecanoe river with the
Wabash, the latter a tributary of the Ohio. Tecumseh is gone on a
mission to the Southern Indians to induce them to unite in a
confederation of all the Indian tribes, leaving his brother, the
Prophet, in charge of the tribes already assembled, having strictly
enjoined upon him not to quarrel with the Americans, or Long-Knives,
as the Indians called them, during his absence. General Harrison,
Governor of Indiana, and commander of the American forces, having
learned of Tecumseh's plans, marches to attack the Prophet; but the
latter, pretending to be friendly, sends out some chiefs to meet
Harrison. By the advice of these chiefs, the Americans encamp on an
elevated plateau, near the Prophet's Town,--"a very fitting place,"
to the mind of Harrison's officers, but to the practised eye of
Harrison himself, also well fitted for a night attack by the Indians.
He, therefore, very wisely makes all necessary preparations for
defence against any sudden attack.