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Read & copy
“For here the exile met from every clime, And spoke in friendship every distant tongue:”
Meaning & context
The narrator imagines Wyoming as a place where displaced people from different European backgrounds can live together peacefully across languages.
Source details
Gertrude of Wyoming, Part I, stanza IV, represented in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, Project Gutenberg #59788, around printed page 46. Campbell's ‘exile ... from every clime’ lines idealize the pre-conflict Wyoming settlement before the poem turns toward violence associated with the 1778 Wyoming conflict. They remain Romantic historical-poetic framing rather than a factual demographic account of colonial Pennsylvania.