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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Songs of Labour and Reform (search)
yellow hair!” And the mountains dark and high From their crags reechoed the cry Of his anger and despair. He is now a man of peace; and the agent at Standing Rock, Dakota, writes, September 28, 1886: Rain-in-the-Face is very anxious to go to Hampton. I fear he is too old, but he desires very much to go. The Southern Workman, the organ of General Armstrong's Industrial School at Hampton, Va., says in a late number:— Rain-in-the-Face has applied before to come to Hampton, but his age wou in the position of a boy and a student. the years are but half a score, And the war-whoop sounds no more With the blast of bugles, where Straight into a slaughter pen, With his doomed three hundred men, Rode the chief with the yellow hair. O Hampton, down by the sea! What voice is beseeching thee For the scholar's lowliest place? Can this be the voice of him Who fought on the Big Horn's rim? Can this be Rain-in-the-Face? His war-paint is washed away, His hands have forgotten to slay; He se