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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Appendix (search)
vow is recorded—our banner unfurled, In the name of Vermont we defy all the world! To A Poetical Trio in the City of Gotham. [This jeu d'esprit was written by Whittier in 1832. The notes are his own. The authorship was not discovered till after his death.] Three wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl. Bards of the island city!—where of old The Dutchman smoked beneath his favorite tree, And the wild eyes of Indian hunters rolled On Hudson plunging in the Tappaan Zee, Scene of Stuyvesant's might and chivalry, And Knickerbocker's fame,—I have made bold To come before ye, at the present time, And reason with ye in the way of rhyme. Time was when poets kept the quiet tenor Of their green pathway through th' Arcadian vale,— Chiming their music in the low sweet manner Of song-birds warbling to the ‘Soft South’ gale; Wooing the Muse where gentle zephyrs fan her, I Where all is peace and earth may not assail; Telling of lutes and flowers, of love and fear, Of shepherds, she