THE TOWN OF WEST FARMS. 445 



Blue pellorcts from purple leaves upslauting 

 A modest gaze, like eyes of a young maiden 

 Shining beneath dropp'd lids the evening of her wedding. 



The breeze fresh springing from the lips of morn, 

 Kissing the leaves, anil sighing so to loose 'em, 



The winding of the merry locust's horn, 

 The glad spring gushing from the rock's bare bosom ; 



Sweet sighs, sweet sounds, all sights, all sounds excehih^ 



Oh ! 'twas a ravishing spot, form'd for a poet's dwelling. 



And I did leave thy loveliness, to stand 



Again in the dull world of earthly blindness, 

 Pain'd with the pressure of unfriendly hands, 



Sick of smooth looks, agued with icy kindness ; 

 Left I for this thy shades, where none intrude, 

 To prison wandering thought and mar sweet solitude. 



Yet I will look upon thy face again 



My own romantic Bronx, and it will be 

 A face more pleasant than the face of men. 



Thy waves are old companions, I shall see 

 A well remembered form in each old tree, 

 And hear a voice long loved in thy wild ministrelsy. 



The burial place of the Hunt family, is located near the entrance of 

 the point. The following inscriptions are copied from two of the monu- 

 ments in this yard : — 



In memory oe 



THOMAS HUNT, 



who departed this life, 



July 4th, 1808, 



in the 80th year of his age. 



He possessed the cardinal virtues in an eminent degree ; 



he was temperate, brave, patient and just : 



The solid rock shall sink beneath 



The iron hand of time, 



But virtue dwells with 



Immortality. 



The other is 



Sacked 



to the mernory 



of 



JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, M.D. 



who died September 21st, 1825, 



aged 25 years. « 



a The wire of R. W. Gilder, assistant editor of Scribner's, is the grand-daughter of Joseph 

 R. Drake, author of the '• culprit " ami the " American Flag," who died over tifty years ago, 

 at the age of twentv-five, with the reputation of one of the most gifted of American poets. He 

 had buc one child, the mother of Mrs. Gilder. 



