...with pleasurable excitement they might have to tell us of doings in regions occasionally, perhaps, " Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart would dare." The wolf may fairly enough brag of being " the best abused" brute in creation ; nevertheless there...

...saw the fire of the midulght camp And heard at times a horse's trnmp, And a bloodhound's distant hay. Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart...dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass, He erouched in the rank and tangled grass; Like a wild beast m his lair. A poor old slave, infirm and...

...the Dismal Swamp The hunted negro lay; He saw the fire of the midnight camp, And heard at times the horse's tramp, And a bloodhound's distant bay. " Where...could pass, Or a human heart would dare, — On the qnaking turf of the green morass Eb crouched in the rank and tangled grass, Like a wild beast in his...

...the Diamal Swamp The hunted negro lay ; He saw the fire of the midnight camp, And heard at times the horse's tramp, And a bloodhound's distant bay. " Where...foot could pass, Or a human heart would dare, — On iii'j quaking turf of the green morass II: orouohed in the rank and tangled grass, Like a wild beast...

...growj, aud the ршшюм Tin* In spotted like the snake; " Where hardly я human foot could ¡MUS, Or a human heart would dare, — On the quaking turf of the green тогам He crvmohed in the rank aud tangled graea, . Like л wild beo*t in hie lair. 14 A poor old...

...the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine Is spotted like the snake; 164 THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP. Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart...would dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass Ho crouched in the rank and tangled grass, Like a wild beaut in his lair. A poor old slave, infirm...

...heard at times a horse's trump, And a bloodhound's distant bay. Where hardly a human foot could pan, Or a human heart would dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass, He crouched in the rank nnd tangled grass; Like a wild beast in his lair. A poor old slare, infirm and lame ; Great scars deformed...

...shroud the pine, And the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or human heart would dare, On the quaking turf of the...morass He crouched in the rank and tangled grass, lake a wild beast in his lair. A poor old slave, infirm and lame ; Great scars deformed his face ;...

...mosses shroud the pine, And the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine Is spotted like the snake ; \Vhere hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart would dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass He couched in the rank and tangled grass, Like a wild beast in his lair. A poor old slave, infirm and...

...clay, he feels his danger and his desolate condition. How dreary and how dreadful is this place ! — " Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart...would dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass, His all he had trusted there." But CHRISTIAN now looks elsewhere for help, and makes every effort to...