That tune recalled her early German home, the Rhine, her good father and mother, and the scenes of the great Indian Potlatch on the Columbia.

It was the _Traumerei_.
Her poetic imagination, which had been suppressed by her foster-mother in her girlhood, came back to her in her new home, and it was her delight to express in verse the inspirations of her life amid these new scenes, and to publish these poems in the papers of the East that most sympathized with the cause of Indian education.
The memory of Benjamin and the old chief of the Cascades never left her.
It was a never-to-be-forgotten lesson of the nobility of all men whose souls have the birthright of heaven.

Often, when the wild geese were flying overhead in the evening, she would recall Benjamin, and say, "He who guides led me here from the Rhine, and schooled me for my work in the log school-house on the Columbia." Such is not an overdrawn picture of the early pioneers of the Columbia and the great Northwest.
Jason Lee was censured for leaving his mission for the sake of Oregon--for turning his face from the stars to the sun.

Whitman, when he appeared ragged at Washington, was blamed for having left his post.

The early pioneers of the great Northwest civilization lie in neglected graves.