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owner of the lauds, unless he were permitted to humanise the 

 syllables for twenty miles round.* At all events, the native 

 names possess the great advantage of being new words for 

 new ideas. In several countries they have found warm advo- 

 cates ; and some one in America exclaims " how can the red 

 men be forgotten, while so many of our States and territories, 

 rivers and lakes, are designated by their names?" The 

 following poems refer to the United States and to New South 

 Wales :— 



" 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 forest where they roamed, there rings no hunter's shout ; 

 But their name is on your waters, — ye may not wash it out. 



Yes, where Ontario't billow like ocean's surge is curled. 

 Whore strong Niagaras thunders wake the echo of the world ; 

 Where red Missouri bringeth rich tribute from the west. 

 And Rappahannock sweetly sleeps on green Virginia's breast. 



Ye say their cone-like cabins, that clustered o'er the vale, 

 Have disappeared like withered leaves before the autumn gale ; 

 But their memory livoth on your hills, their baptism on your shore, 

 Your everlasting rivers speak their dialect of yore. 



Old Massachxuelt wears it, within her lordly crown, 



And broad Ohio bears it amid his young renown. 



Connecticut hath wreathed it where her quiet foliage waves. 



And bold Kentucky breathed it hoarse through all her ancient caves. 



Wachusett hides their lingering voice, within his rocky heart, 



And Alleghany graves its tone throughout his lofty chart. 



Monadnock on his forehead hoar, doth seal the sacred trust ; — 



Your mountains build their monument, though ye give the winds iheir dust ' > 



" I like the native names; as Parramatta, 

 And niawarra, and Woolloomooloo ; 

 Nandowra, Woogarora, Bulkomatta, 



Tomah, Toongabbee, Mittagong, Murroo, 

 Buckobhle, Cumleroy, and Coolingalta, 

 The Warragumby, Bargo, Monaroo ; 

 Cookbundoon, Carrabaigo, Wingycarribee, 

 The Wollondilly, Yarumbon, Bungarriblcf . 



* Essay on Barbarous Denominations in Ireland, 

 •f From Specimens of American roetrj-. 



