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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.

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Those mountains had yielded to Boone and Adair;
7 McDowell and Tipton had led through the passes
6 But to find them awaiting the "Hot-Spur" Sevier!

        'Twas the land that had haunted the dreams of the hunted-
        For which all the hopeless and homeless had prayed-
        Untrammeled by custom, unfettered by fashion
        Each man his master, her mistress each maid.

        So, the hunter, his rifle and bullet-pouch bearing,
        Blew a blast on his horn, and his hounds thronged around;
14 The horses were packed and, on foot, the small household
        Started out for the West, a new nation to found!

        Through dim, ghostly woodlands and dew-jeweled meadows
        They eagerly followed the tract of the sun;
        They rafted the rivers and conquered the "Smokies",
        From whose peaks they first saw the new homes they had won.

13 There were men form old Rowan, Burke, Surry and Chowan,
        Wake, Anson and Craven and Currituck's Lights'
        And Mecklenburg sent of her sturdy young yeomen
16 Such men as subscribed to that "First Bill of Rights."

        They girdled the forests, they drained the morasses,
        They builded of rude logs the Church and the Home-
15 In labor and sorrow and sore tribulation-
        Faith for the foundation and Love for the dome.

        The savage was cowed, and tame herds soon were grazing
        On hill-slopes where, erstwhile, red Indians did road;
        Contentment smiled on them, these North Carolinians,
5 Who dreamed they still dwelt 'neath the roof-tree of Home.

12 & 15 For, from Nic-a-jack's cave to the "Red Banks of Chucky",
10 From Cumberland Gap to the Talliqua Plain,
        While struggling still Westward their sad hearts were yearning
2 Across the bald "Smokies" to Yadkin again.

5 & 6 And if prayer be the sword of the Lord and of Gideon,
        Then, indeed, the "Old Mother" made bare her right arm!-
        It was distance, not danger, that barred human succor,
        Else her shield and her buckler had saved them from harm!

15 But these Methodist shouters, these Primitive Baptists,
        These Scotch Convenanters in the wilderness stayed-

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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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