BARTRAM'S INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE 169 



With Indian awe and wonder (VI, 121) 



Sown like tents 

 Or Indian cabins . . . (VI, 521-22) 



from remote 

 America, the Hunter-Indian . . . (VII, 225-26) 



. . . painted Indians (VII, 707) 

 Think, how the everlasting streams and woods. 

 Stretched and still stretching far and wide, exalt 

 The roving Indian, on his desert sands: (VII, 745-47) 

 Induced by sleeping nightly on the ground 

 Within his sod-built cabin, Indian wise (VIII, 439-40) 



Mention has been made of Wordsworth's use of Bartram's 

 pelican and warbling " crowds in under-coverts " — and, inci- 

 dentally, of Ashe's mocking-bird and Carver's whippoorwill. In 

 The Recluse appears a description of the flight of waterfowl, a 

 passage of twenty-seven lines which were first published under 

 the title " Water-Fowl " in 1827 and were reprinted in the fifth 

 edition of the Guide through the District of the Lakes: ^® 



Behold, how with a grace 

 Of ceaseless motion, that might scarcely seem 

 Inferior to angelical, they prolong 

 Their curious pastime, shaping in mid air, 

 And sometimes with ambitious wing that soars 

 High as the level of the mountain tops, 

 A circuit ampler than the lake beneath, 

 Their own domaiyi; — but ever, while intent 

 On tracing and retracing that large round. 

 Their jubilant activity evolves 

 Hundreds of curves and circlets, to and fro. 

 Upwards and downwards, progress intricate 

 Yet unperplexed, as if one spirit swayed 

 Their indefatigable flight. Tis done — 

 Ten times and more, I fancied it had ceased; 

 But lo! the vanished company again 

 Ascending, they approach — I hear their wings 

 Faint, faint at first ; and then an eager sound 

 Passed in a moment — and as faint again ! 

 They tempt the sun to sport among their plumes; 

 Tempt the smooth water, or the gleaming ice, 

 To show them a fair image; 'tis themselves, 

 Their own fair forms, upon the glimmering plain, 



" Poems, VIII, 243. 



