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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... HARK TO THE SHOUTING WIND Henry Timrod Henry Timrod (1829-1867) was an American poet. He was a native of South Carolina and is perhaps the finest interpreter of the heroism and devotion of the South. Hark to the shouting Wind! 5 Hark to the flying Rain! And I care not though I never see A bright blue sky again. There are thoughts in my breast to-day That are not for human speech; 10 But I hear them in the driving storm, And the roar upon the beach. And oh, to be with that ship That I watch through the blinding brine! 0 Wind! for thy sweep of land and sea! is 0 Sea! for a voice like thine! Shout on, thou pitiless Wind, To the frightened and flying Rain! 1 care not though I never see A calm blue sky again. THE SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND John Fiske John Fiske (1842-1901) was an American historian, famous not only for his learning but for the courage and vigor of his thought. In these times, when great steamers sail every day from European ports, bringing immigrants to a country not less advanced in material civilization than the coun-8 try which they leave, the daily arrival of a thousand new citizens has come to be a commonplace event. But in the seventeenth century the transfer of more than twenty thousand well-to-do people within twenty years from their comfortable homes in England to the io American wilderness was by no means a commonplace event. It reminds one of the migrations of ancient peoples, and in the quaint thought of our forefathers it was aptly likened to the exodus of Israel from the Egyptian house of bondage. is In this migration a principle of selection was at work which insured an extraordinary uniformity of character and of purpose among the settlers. To this uniformity of purpose, combined with complete homogeneity of race, is due the prepo...
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