"He nursed the Infant Hoosier muse
When she could scarcely lisp her name;
Forerunner of the world's great lights
That since have added to her fame,
He blazed the way to greater things,
With "Hoosier's Nest," and "Bachelor's Hall;"
And, while the grand world-chorus rings
With songs our Hoosier choir sings,
Let not the stream forget the springs,--
Let Finley's name before them all."
Footnotes:
[1] "The Hoosiers," pp. 20-30.
[2] History of Indianapolis and Marion County, p. 72.
[3] "Early Indiana Trials and Sketches," p. 211.
[4] Coggeshall's "The Poets and Poetry of the West," and Finley's "The
Hoosier's Nest and Other Poems" published in 1860.
[5] Indiana Democrat, Jan. 12, 1833.
[6] "A Winter in the West," p. 226.
[7] Indianapolis Journal, January 20, 1860.
[8] Sketches, p. 45.
[9] Salem Democrat, October 25, 1899; March 28, 1900.
[10] Published in 1835, Vol. 1, Page 210.
[11] Georgia Scenes, page 73.
[12] Pages 188-9.
[13] Pages 182-5.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the
original.
Page 11: typograpical should be typographical;
perodical should be periodical
Page 14: occured should be occurred
Page 17: Pulskys should be Pulszkys
Page 22: electic should be eclectic
Page 24: Dictonary should be Dictionary
Page 26: symptons should be symptoms
Page 28: occured should be occurred
Page 32: abhorence should be abhorrence
Page 36: shakles should be shackles
Advertisment should be Advertisement
Punctuation has been corrected without note.