THE FOREST SANCTUARY.
“Long time against oppression have I fought,
And for the native liberty of faith
Have bled and suffer’d bonds.” Remorse; a Tragedy.
[The following poem is intended to describe the mental conflicts, as well as outward sufferings, of a Spaniard, who, flying from the religious persecutions of his own country, in the sixteenth century, takes refuge, with his child, in a North American forest. The story is supposed to be related by himself, amidst the wilderness which has afforded him an asylum.]