Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 73
i T was in the yellow autumn-time, Three hundred years away,When first the Half-Moon furled her sai In old Manhattan Bay.Brave Hudson was her admiral, A sailor bold and true,And twenty sturdy Hollanders Made up his daring crew!iiFrom Eastern lands afar they came, Through storm or favoring… … On either hand the wooded land Came down to meet the sea;While from the North the tides returned Brimful of mystery!Whence came the mighty waters wide With Titan force unspent,But through the cloven mountain wall, The rock-ribbed continent? IV So vast the sweep of waters deep, So wide the waters…
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