On Seekonk’s banks, our common field of maize.”

LXXI.

Williams replied, “My brother sure is kind,

But his red friends are doubtless with him here;

And they may teach my kindred, left behind,

To track my footsteps through the forest drear;—

To journey homeward I have little mind;

My course is with the sun to wilds less near,

Where I would form, if granted the domain,

A tribe which never should the soul enchain.”