Item - The Chickasaw's Lament

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Series:	New York Weekly — v. 20 no. 20 — page 6
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XX, no. 20, April 6, 1865 (Issue)
Author:	Walden, George
Date:	April 8, 1865
Edition Description:	Note.--This poem was founded on the following tale: During the colonial times, a Chickasaw Indian was bribed to accompany an English gentleman to the mother country, where he wished to exhibit him as a curiosity to his friends. While on the voyage across the Atlantic, the constrained life and the thoughts of his tribe so worked upon the mind of the Indian, that he became much dispirited. The Englishman, noticing this, repented his conduct, and immediately after their arrival in England, a return passage was secured for the Indian, and he was permitted to return to his native wilds. On reaching America's shores, he hurried into the woods, and was never seen near any white settlement again. During his homesickness he talked most of the time of Miomee and the Cconee.
First Sentence:	Away ye gilded joys! Away