Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1888 — A Song of She Kankakee. [ARTICLE]

A Song of She Kankakee.

The Kentland poet, W. W. Pfrinauer-, (“Finkamink”, thus celebrates the" attractions of that seemingly very ull poetic stream, the Kankakee river: Towa'ril tire north 11 tvlsSßug stream riows-flirough a silent, loiiesomelan'l, Its banks so low tliey scartely seem . ~ tt’b rise tilibvft-the siielteftatl smml 'That *iioath.the crystal waters gLsLUi I.ike jewels on a maiden’s ii-an i, . “An'l here and there dee;; bayeus lay, Half hid“by'willow.-; drooping low. Whose leaves of green him l branches trray '1 iieirervi'riinuseiul sliadows'tiirow, That with the mottled sunbeams play Down -where the water-litlits grow. Here through the long-, bright summer days The wood-duok rears her downy.brood ; Here, where thetjeniter cat-tail sways, The Itermit bittern seeks his food; . ‘so sttu, .««'-<[tt{ef, all r tlrcTr W-aysf ~ fearce broken is tlie solitude. 'Tin here, when auto-mu'.-; tuy^iewand Has t.otie.lie-i Uic wood with red and gold. And draped the di-tant ridge- beyond ,In purple haze of magic fold; - Ami cv’ry ilowerar.d iiTaf and frond A sweet.enchantment seems to liedd. r ioveT l ! iioiii, iiiyni its tide. ■ And let lily laney drift at will Past gloomy swamp, and marshland wide, And tangled brake, and wood, until Far into fairy laud 1 elide O’er si.h 'i-y waters calm and still.