Portica Stanzas A Soldier of Tippecanoe Poem
The verses praise marching to a camping ground with bright stars overhead. It speaks of fearlessness despite a nearby foe and recalls the soldier of Tippecanoe leading the advance through the greenwood.
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1840
Page
4
The verses praise marching to a camping ground with bright stars overhead. It speaks of fearlessness despite a nearby foe and recalls the soldier of Tippecanoe leading the advance through the greenwood.
A reflective verse scene presents Death as the Reaper with a keen sickle harvesting grain and flowers alike. The speaker questions receiving nothing fair but grain, then accepts that the flowers’ breath is sweet and vows to restore them in fields of light with saints bearing sacred blossoms.
Patrick Mahony of Kilkenny marries Bridget O’Leary after a long courtship. A London banker named Michael Angelo Taylor leaves 70 000 pounds to fund a picture gallery and feature rooms at Oxford University. A tall youth disputes a small man, a humorous exchange noting a sixpence among copper pennies.
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