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amplified more to the satisfaction of those who do not know the details as I do------F.D. Love,

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        The numbers in margin refer to the historical note appended.
        The following Ode was written by John P. Arthur, of Asheville, NC and was read at the unveiling of the Table to the memory of Robert Love, at Waynesville, August 23rd, 1902. Said Arthur is the great grandson of Robert Love.

1 They told by the sibilant sea of the solemn
        Blue mountains, whose summits ascend to the sky;
        Where, cradled in solitude, world-weary pilgrims
        Might find perfect rest, undisturbed by a sigh.

        They told of an opulent soil, where the flowers
        Flashed fair as the flame of a taper-lit shrine;
        Bedecking the meadows, bespangling the valleys,
        And climbing the mountains, the sun to outshine.
        
        They told of a river, whose wide, tawny waters,
        tho' sweet, were as vast as the limitless seas;
        Where white wings of commerce, rich argosies bearing,
        Could sail from the Lakes to the Florida Keys.
        
        They sang of savannahs as smooth as a carpet,
        Of golden fruit breaking their branches in twain;
        Of great clouds of Wild-fowl, the sunlight obscuring,
        And buffalo haunting the billowy plain.

        But they told of a cruel foe crouching in ambush,
        For those treachery nothing but blood could atone;
        Of fierce Chickamauga's and Cherokee bowmen,
        Whose swift, stealthy shaft sang a dirge all its own.
        
2 Such the stories that came from Watauga's wild waters,
        Such the songs that were sung from Catawba to Tar;
10 Such the stories and songs that, from Loudon's block-houses,
        Thrilled through the "Old North State" from Catawba to Tar.

        But the rivers and mountains! The dim, distant mountains!
        Rising range upon range to the ultimate sky!
        Could women and children surmount those blue masses?
        Could even strong men those grim rock-cliffs defy?

17 Yet, North, West of Guilford, and South, West of Cowpens,

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Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series. , Edited by Dennis N. Partridge, Columbus, Georgia, © 2001.

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