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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Songs of Labour and Reform (search)
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 would exclude him from the school as an ordinary student. He has shown himself very much in earnest about it, and is anxious, all say, to learn thHampton, but his age would exclude him from the school as an ordinary student. He has shown himself very much in earnest about it, and is anxious, all say, to learn the better ways of life. It is as unusual as it is striking to see a man of his age, and one who has had such an experience, willing to give up the old way, and put himself 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