What Cheer; Or, Roger Williams in Banishment: A Poem

by Job Durfee

Of the pure fount, nausamp,[4] and savory deer.

[4] The word samp is a corruption of the Indian nausamp, and has the same meaning.

CANTO SECOND.

[Scenes. The Wigwam—The Wilderness—Pawtucket Falls—Seekonk’s Meads—The Wigwam.]

It was the morning of a Sabbath day,

When Williams rose to Waban’s simple cheer,

But knew not where, save that vast forests lay

Betwixt his home and the lone wigwam here;

Yet ’twas a place of peace; no thing of clay,