The leading incidents in this poem are historical. The descendants of Pocahontas are still to be found, I believe, in the United States.

Through the majestic forest shade

The light of morn is faintly shining,

Scarce straggling through the twilight made

By leafy boughs entwining;

As Nature, from the birth of Time,

Deep in this lone sequestered wood,

Had formed herself a bower sublime,

Where she might dwell with solitude,

And list the wild bird’s note, nor fear