1836

Paulding, James Kirke. "Ode to Jamestown." 1836. The Magnolia. 1836. Edited by Henry W. Herbert. New York: Monson Bancroft, 1836. (The Magnolia; or, Gift-Book of Friendship. Ed. Clara Arnold. New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1843. 33-35.) (The Poets and Poetry of America. Ed. Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Philadelphia, 1856. 83-84.) (Poems of American History. Ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1922. 46-47.) Wandering among the "old stones" of Jamestown, Paulding has visions backward and forward and can't imagine anyone not shedding a tear "of reverent gratitude to those that moulder here." Singled out -- though both are buried in England -- are Smith and Pocahontas, she "the glorious Indian maid," "the tutelary of this land," "the angel of the woodland shade," "Sister of charity and love," "goddess of the sylvan grove," "flower of the forest," and "nature's pride."
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