VIRGINIA DARE.
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BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.
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[The first-born child of English parents in the Western World was the granddaughter of Governor White, who planted a short-lived colony at Roanoke, Virginia, in the year 1587.]
’Twas lovely in the deep greenwood
Of old Virginia’s glade,
Ere the sharp axe amid its boughs
A fearful chasm had made;
Long spikes of rich catalpa flowers