Madeline.—A Legend of the Mohawk.—The events narrated in this poem occurred during the struggle of the American Colonies for Independence, immediately after the battle of Saratoga, in a small village on the banks of the Mohawk.
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By the ruthless Cow-boys slain.
"Cow-boys" was the term applied to the corps of freebooters attached to the British army.
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And the gall-drops were poured from the drawn-sword of Death.
According to a Rabbinical tradition, gall-drops fall from the suspended sword of the Angel of Death on the lips of the dying.
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The cherubim drooped and the pomegranates lay
In the dust with the lamps that had glimmered all day;
The censers, and altars, the ashes must claim,
Though their unalloyed gold be the gold of Parvaim.
2 Chronicles, 3:10: "And in the most holy house he made two Cherubims of image-work, and overlaid them with gold."