Capt. Thomas Gamble-- Part 5: James Fennimore Cooper's Poem to Thomas

James Fennimore Cooper visited the grave a decade later and paid poetic  tribute whole visiting it in December 1828.  He wrote five verses on Gamble's stone.  The first and last are as follows:

"Sleep on in peace,  within thy foreign grave,

Companion of my young and laughing hour!

Thought bears me hence to wild Ontario's wave,

To other scenes, to days when hope had power.

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"But twice ten years have drawn a ray,

Of austere truth across the treach'rous sphere; 

To me life stands exposed, yet I obey

Its luring calls, and lo! thou sleepest  here!"

--Brock-Perry