212 OPEN EYED.
��OPEN EYED.
��BY W. E. W.
Blind was I, love, but mine eyes have been opened Late, ob, too late to bring gladness to thee.
Now not a token can tell thee that spoken Falsely were words which have sent thee from me
Pride gave the answer, my heart held its message Hidden within, — oh, I knew it not then !
After thy wronging, revealing its longing, Love was born unto thee, noblest of men.
Come o'er the sea, come back, I implore thee !
Must I thus ever my folly deplore? Make no delaying, cease from thy straying,
Thine am I, mine art thou, love, evermore !
Vain my confession, ana vain is my crying;
Naught but the moan of the ocean replies. Nothing but sorrow awaits my to-morrow,
Pride may die undeplored, love never dies.
Must we thus suffer together, forever, Never a balm nor a healing hand find?
Oh, 'twas my doing, and, love, 'tis our rueing; Better that both had been blind, yes, blind.
��'• CHOHASS."
��BY WILLIAM LITTLE.
This was the name of the great inter- in 1764, and was on the direct road to
vals on the Connecticut River at Haver- those places. The other neighboring
hill, New Hampshire, and vicinity. They towns were not settled till a few years
were so called by the Indians, and the after, and the grantees who held the
word was variously spelled, Chohass, charters were naturally anxious as to
Cowass, Coossuck, Co :os, Coos. the value of the land, and numerous par-
At the close of the old French war, ties from Southern New Hampshire went
this land, the most fertile in New Eng- up to view the country.
land, was eagerly sought after, and Gov. Col. John Goffe of Bedford and his
Benning Wentworth enriched himself by friends had a charter of a township on
making numerous grants of townships the Passumpsic River, in Vermont, and
on both sides of the river. Hundreds of in the fall of 1764 he sent Matthew
town charters were issued about 1760, Patten and Dea. Robert Walker to look
1765, and Haverhill and Newbury were at It.
settled in 1761. Plymouth was settled Mr. Patten was an able man. He was
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