"Of all men—

Who passes for in life and death most lucky,

Of the great names which in our faces stare,

Is Daniel Boone, backwoodsman of Kentucky."

"Crime came not near him—she is not the child

Of Solitude. Health shrank not from him, for

Her home is in the rarely-trodden wild."

"And tall and strong and swift of foot are they,

Beyond the dwarfing city's pale abortions,

Because their thoughts had never been the prey