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I have for some time been tracking down sources of the some 1000 chapter heading epigraphs used by the American author James Fenimore Cooper in his 32 novels, and have only a few to go. I am wondering if anyone can help me identify (author and title, and if convenient page or line, etc.) the following, which might be from 18th century sources: 1) "Come, all you kindred chieftains of the deep, In mighty phalanx round your brother bend; Hush every murmer that invades his sleep-- And guard the laurels that o'ershade your friend!" Cooper's attribution: Lines on Tripp (Trippe) 2) "Mac-Homer, too, in prose or song, By the state-papers of Buffon, To deep researches led; A Gallo-Celtic scheme may botch, To prove the Ourang race were Scotch, Who from the Highlands fled. Cooper's attribution: Lord John Townshend 3) "The screams of rage, the groan, the strife, The blow, the grasp, the horrid cry, The panting, throttled prayer for life, The dying's heaving sigh, The murderer's curse, the dead man's fixed, still glare, And fear's and death's cold sweat -- they all are there." Cooper's attribution: Matthew Lee. Note: A Matthew Lee was executed at Tyburn in 1752, and John Wesley is supposed to have published an account of his life. Many thanks if anyone can help. Hugh C. MacDougall Secretary/Treasurer James Fenimore Cooper Society 8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016 <[log in to unmask]> <http://library.cmsu.edu/cooper/cooper.htm> ---------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%