By Walter D. Edmonds
The bestselling novel in the back of John Ford's acclaimed movie starring Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, and Edna could Oliver.
When newlyweds Gilbert and Lana Martin settle within the Mohawk Valley in 1776, they paintings tirelessly opposed to the weather to construct a brand new existence. yet while they transparent land and until eventually soil to set up their farm, the pictures of the innovative conflict turn into a rallying cry for either the loyalists and the patriots. quickly, Gil and Lana see their buddies pick out facets opposed to every one other--as British and Iroquois forces hurricane the valley, concentrating on a person who helps the revolution.
Originally released in 1936, this vintage novel used to be a bestseller for 2 years--second in simple terms to Gone with the Wind--and was once tailored right into a movie in 1939. Now, a few three-quarters of a century later, Drums alongside the Mohawk stands as a super account of the majesty of the hot York frontier, the undying rhythms that form a wedding, and the battles of a revolution that will switch the world.
Foreword by means of Diana Gabaldon
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44 6. But thou, who own’st that earthy bed, Ah! what will every dirge avail? Or tears, which Love and Pity shed That mourn beneath the gliding sail! 7. 25 Yet lives there one, whose heedless eye Shall scorn thy pale shrine glimmering near? With him, sweet bard, may Fancy die, And Joy desert the blooming year. 8. But thou, lorn stream, whose sullen tide 30 No sedge-crowned Sisters now attend, [] [] Now waft me from the green hill’s side Whose cold turf hides the buried friend! 9. And see, the fairy valleys fade, [] Dun Night has veiled the solemn view!
I showed her there the songs of one [] Who done to death by pride 35 Though Virtue’s friend, and Fancy’s son In love unpitied died I hoped when to that shepherd’s truth Her pity should attend She would not leave another youth 40 To meet his luckless end. 6. Now tell me you who hear me sing And prompt the tender theme How far is Lavant’s little spring From Medway’s mightier stream! 45 [] [] Confined within my native dells 64 The world I little know But in some tufted mead she dwells Where’er those waters flow.
With eyes up-raised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sat retired, And from her wild sequestered seat, 60 In notes by distance made more sweet, Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, 65 Or o’er some haunted stream with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away. But O how altered was its sprightlier tone!