[C] “The Horicon,” meaning tail lake, is the Indian name given by Cooper to Lake George.
IN A TRAIN.
A lonesome landscape, brown and grey,
And chilled with flakes of smutchy snow,
So grimly dull that every ray
Of setting sun forgets its glow;
But in the train I sit with one.
Who clears my thoughts of wintry gloom;
She laughs!—and now a midday sun
Is coaxing summer flowers to bloom!
THE BALLAD OF A BUGABOO.[D]
In Aachen Town, in olden days,
There dwelt a demon beast,
Whose special prey was roysterers
Returning from a feast.
By day, he lurked in caverns deep
Where sulphur waters boil,
And dreamt of evil men and deeds,
Whilst resting from his toil.
By night he issued from the spring,
And those, who saw him, said:
“His body long and shaggy seemed
With oddly flattened head.