| Samuel Kettell, ed. Specimens of American Poetry. 1829. | | | | Fragment, Descriptive of Those Extraordinary Animals Whose Bones Have Been Found in the Western Country | | By Josias Lyndon Arnold (1768–1796) |
| | | THE MONSTERS rage, and round the earth | |
| Spread ruin and destruction fell, | |
| Sent by the great Pehoogthsi’s 1 wrath, | |
| Fierce from the angry gates of hell. | |
| Haste, my Shootai, haste away, | 5 |
| Destruction waits upon delay! | |
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| Above the highest pines they raise | |
| In horrid majesty their head; | |
| Their eyes in vengeful anger blaze, | |
| Their jaws grind nations of the dead. | 10 |
| Haste, my Shootai, haste away, | |
| Destruction waits upon delay! | |
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| Save us, Oroonoh! 2 at a leap | |
| O’er Allegany’s height they bound, | |
| O’er Huron’s darkly rolling deep, | 15 |
| And with convulsions rend the ground. | |
| Haste, my Shootai, haste away, | |
| Destruction waits upon delay! | |
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| They breathe, the woods are prostrate laid, | |
| The rocks are moved; they roar, | 20 |
| Old Erie on his fall is stay’d, | |
| Kanhawa trembles on his shore. | |
| Haste, my Shootai, haste away, | |
| Destruction waits upon delay! | |
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