They would have known God never made,

A heart all darkness, and how long

The Indian bore aggressive wrong.

Old Logan was the white man’s friend;

But injuries forced his love to end;

Of children, wife, and kindred shorn,

None left for him to joy or mourn,

He rose in calm, vindictive ire,

Beside his nation’s council fire,

And bade them, by their fathers slain,