Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Middle States: Pittsburg, Pa. | | Pittsburg | | James Kibble Paulding (1779–1860) |
| | | HERE lay dark Pittsburg, from whose site there broke | |
| The manufacturer’s black and sparkling smoke, | |
| Where Industry and useful Science reigned, | |
| And man, by labor, all his wants sustained; | |
| There, mid the howling forest dark and drear, | 5 |
| Roved the wild Indian, wilder than the deer, | |
| King of the woods,—who other blessings prized, | |
| And arts and industry alike despised: | |
| Hunting the trade, and war the sport he loved, | |
| Free as the winds, the dauntless chieftain roved, | 10 |
| Taunting, with bitter ire, the pale-faced slave, | |
| Who toils for gold from cradle to the grave. | |
| Extremes of habits, manners, time and space, | |
| Brought close together, here stood face to face, | |
| And gave at once a contrast to the view | 15 |
| That other lands and ages never knew. | | | | |
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