21. CHILDREN IN THE HILL-SIDE CABIN.

Then one by one the children came,

Eight in all to break the silence,

And each one bore a pale-face name

Hiding not its Indian features.

Here they dwelt while-years rolled onward,

Bringing children to the cabin,

Lonely cabin on the mountain,

Eight, in all the silence breaking

[ n the lonely; Light House cabin,

Two were boys with feet so nimble,

Little Solomon and Samuel,

Hallowed names from out the Bible,

Six were girls with smiling faces,

Mary, Mercy, Sally, Polly,

Then came Elizabeth and Hannah.

Blended in each youthful figure

Was the fairness of their mother

With the darker hue of father,

Like a shadow on a lily.

Long and straight and black their hair was,

Like the Narragansett children.