They smoked my pipe, and they espoused my cause;
They made me strong; and all the neighboring bands
Forsook the Narraganset Sachem’s laws[14]
And mine obeyed.—We weakened hostile hands;
All dropt their arms and looked, but looked in vain,
For my white friends to measure back the main.
[14] See [notes to Canto Fourth].
XXVI.
“This leaf, which budded of their hope, now dies;
The Narraganset warriors crest their hair;