Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That, mid the forests where they roamed, There rings no hunters shout; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.
ATTRIBUTION:
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (17911865), U.S. poet. Indian Names (l. 18). . .
Oxford Book of Childrens Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press.