Robert Dudley Adams

“ Lies passing away in death.
The she-oaks wail in the autumn gale,
And the sad mists shadowy rise
O'er the wild swamp streams, where the curlew screams,
As the queen of the dead tribes dies!
The dark tribe's queen! she has suffered, and seen
Her race perish one by one
In the terrible past, till lonely and last
The sands of her life are run. ”

“ As Nature wild takes home her child.
And watches her lonely grave!
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