Excerpt from The Maid of the Doe: A Lay of the Revolution

I have thought my fellow-citizens might receive not unfavorable an attempt to present them with any scenes or soldiers of the Revolution in poetry, for circumstances have made me equally familiar with the richest and poorest classes of our country, and I have found the same interest pervading all in relation to the events and personages of that period of our history. Yet the reader should remember that to the success of such an attempt there are difficulties, apart from any want of genius in the author, inherent in his subject. The enlightened age and cultivated people, in which, and by whom the Revolution was accomplished, have made the heroic period of the Commonwealth the subject of exact and familiar history. Whereas poetry delights in the vague and the shadowy, in an uncertain light, and a distant horizon, where its figures may loom.

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