THE STAR FLOWER. 



A FOREST LEGEND. 



Know you whence sprung this starry flower. 



With golden heart and azure rays, 

 Which blooms in every woodland bower 



When fades the glow of summer days ? 



Then list the legend long since heard 

 Beside the red-man's winding river, 



What time the wilds and forests lone 

 Were held by right of bow and quiver. 



They tell of one, — a youthful brave, 

 (His name would far outrun my rhyme,) 



Whose fame, in savage warfare won, 

 Would rival those of classic time. 



They tell how, in the ambushed strife, 

 An arrow pierced his fearless breast. 



And how, on Susquehanna's marge. 

 They laid him with his sires to rest. 



