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"The Indian Hunter" is a song based on a poem by Eliza Cook. Music was added by Henry Russell and published in 1842. In the poem, a lament, the hunter is questioning what the white man wants with him and his home. ==Cook's poem== "The Indian Hunter, as written by Eliza Cook:〔Cook, ''The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook'', p. 343.〕 :''Oh! why does the white man follow my path,'' ::''Like the hound on the tiger's track?'' :''Does the blush on my dark cheek waken he wrath?'' ::''Doe he covet the bow on my back?'' :''He has rivers and seas, where the billows and breeze'' ::''Bear riches for him alone;'' :''And the sons of the wood never plunge in the flood'' ::''Which the white man calls his own.'' :''Why then should he come to the streams where none'' ::''But the red-skin dare to swim?'' :''Why, why should he wrong the hunter-one,'' ::''Who never did harm to him?'' :''The Father above thought fit to give'' ::''To the white man corn and wine;'' :''There are golden fields, where they may live,'' ::''But the forest shades are mine.'' :''The eagle hath its place of rest,'' ::''The wild horse where to dwell;'' :''An the Spirit that gave the bird its nest,'' ::''Made me a home as well.'' :''Then back, go back from the red man's track,'' ::''For the hunter's eyes grow dim,'' :''To find that the white man wrongs the one'' ::''Who never did harm to him.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Indian Hunter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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