Wild Western Scenes / A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described

by J. B. Jones

I.

She heard his prayer and sweetly smiled,

Then frown’d, and laughing fled away;

But the poor youth, e’en thus beguiled,

Still would pray.

II.

He’d won her heart, but still she fled,

And laugh’d and mock’d from dell and peak

While his sad heart, that inward bled,

Was fit to break!