Ohio History Journal


GIRTY'S ISLAND

GIRTY'S ISLAND.

 

BY N. B. C. LOVE, DESHLER, O.

Girty's Island, in the Maumee River, a hundred years ago,

was the headquarters of the Indians and was the home, for a time,

of Simon Girty.

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Rich in verdant foliage of varied green

And many kindred growth of stately trees,

Plants, flowers and vines with nectar for bees,

Blended in a quivering summer sheen;

And around the waters ebbying tide,

Bending low long boughs with vines interlace

And reflect in the liquid mirror's face,

Scintillating, like moving pictures, glide.

Here Girty's council fires light up the scene,

And all is weird with songs of Indian life,

The whoop and taunt of the savage, whose spleen

Finds vent in imaginary battle strife.

Girty and his dusky aborigines,

Glory in bloody work beneath the trees.

 

 

 

THE NORTHWEST.

 

BY N. B. C. LOVE.

O'er the vast Northwest, the storms of war

Had for ages long fearful havoc made,

With Chieftain bold and many a wildwood maid,

And Squaw and warriors both near and far.

Grand in its vastness reaching from the height

Of the Alleghenies to the great River,

Which through the continent flowed ever,

From frozen North to Southern warmth and light;

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