The Last of Maine's Old Native Pines [Poem by O. W. Severance]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.1996.26
Description
A single page photocopy taken from an unknown publication. The page contains the apparently complete text of a ten stanza poem titled "The Last of Maine's Old Native Pines." The poet is identified as O. W. Severance of Old Town, Maine. The poem is an elegy for Maine's old growth trees and a tribute to the "Penobscot lumber-men" who, in the bygone "days of lumbering" cut them down. Some "lumber kings" mentioned by name include, "Jordan, McNulty, Isaac Terrell, McLean, McLeod, Ed Spencer, Cunningham, and Murphy." Date of composition or original publication not known.