Samuel Gorton.(Poem)

From: The Southern Review | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

letter of Roger Williams to William Blackstone, Providence, RI 1644 

   Days ago, passing through Shawomet 
   into the Narragansett country, I heard 
   or thought I heard a conversation 
   among the trees, one of those times 
   when the leaves give tongue to a dialect 
   almost human, and there, at a turn 
   of the way, that man of gusts and jars 
   Samuel Gorton, who once I feared 
   would drive me for a little peace 
   from Providence all the way to 
   Patience Island, and make of me 
   a hermit there, so needful was that man 
   of a cooler and bridle. One who truly 
   ...

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