1. western

  • Song of the Western Men

       [After the English Revolution of 1688, all bishops were compelled to swear allegiance to William and Mary. Seven of them, adherents of James II., refused and were imprisoned for treason,—the “Non-Jurors.” Trelawney of Cornwall was one.]

    A GOOD sword and a trusty hand,
      A merry heart and true,
    King James’s men shall understand
      What Cornish lads can do....

    Robert Stephen Hawker

  • My First View of a Western Prairie

    The loveliness of Nature, always did

    Delight me.

              In the days of childhood; when

    My young light heart, in all the buoyancy

    Of its own bright imagination’s spell,

    Beat in accordant consonance to all

    For which it cherished an affinity;

    The summer glory of the landscape, rous’d
    ...