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Page 56
... Mondamin , Come to warn you and instruct you , How by struggle and by labor , You shall gain what you have prayed for . Rise up from your bed of branches , Rise , O youth , and wrestle with me ! " Faint with famine , Hiawatha Started ...
... Mondamin , Come to warn you and instruct you , How by struggle and by labor , You shall gain what you have prayed for . Rise up from your bed of branches , Rise , O youth , and wrestle with me ! " Faint with famine , Hiawatha Started ...
Page 57
... Mondamin , Smiling upon Hiawatha , " But to - morrow , when the sun sets , I will come again to try you . " And he vanished , and was seen not ; Whether sinking as the rain sinks , Whether rising as the mists rise , Hiawatha saw not ...
... Mondamin , Smiling upon Hiawatha , " But to - morrow , when the sun sets , I will come again to try you . " And he vanished , and was seen not ; Whether sinking as the rain sinks , Whether rising as the mists rise , Hiawatha saw not ...
Page 58
... Mondamin for the trial , For the strife with Hiawatha ; Came as silent as the dew comes , From the empty air appearing , Into empty air returning , Taking shape when earth it touches , But invisible to all men In its coming and its ...
... Mondamin for the trial , For the strife with Hiawatha ; Came as silent as the dew comes , From the empty air appearing , Into empty air returning , Taking shape when earth it touches , But invisible to all men In its coming and its ...
Page 61
... Mondamin , Till the shadows , pointing eastward , Lengthened over field and forest , Till the sun dropped from the heaven , Floating on the waters westward , As a red leaf in the Autumn Falls and floats upon the water , Falls and sinks ...
... Mondamin , Till the shadows , pointing eastward , Lengthened over field and forest , Till the sun dropped from the heaven , Floating on the waters westward , As a red leaf in the Autumn Falls and floats upon the water , Falls and sinks ...
Page 63
... Mondamin ; Nor forgotten , nor neglected Was the grave where lay Mondamin , Sleeping in the rain and sunshine , Where his scattered plumes and garments Faded in the rain and sunshine . Day by day did Hiawatha Go to wait and watch beside ...
... Mondamin ; Nor forgotten , nor neglected Was the grave where lay Mondamin , Sleeping in the rain and sunshine , Where his scattered plumes and garments Faded in the rain and sunshine . Day by day did Hiawatha Go to wait and watch beside ...
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anguish answered arrows beauty beaver behold beneath Big-Sea-Water birch canoe birds bison blue-bird Bowl branches breath Chibiabos corn-fields Cracked the sky cried cunning Pau-Puk-Keewis Dacotahs Danced darkness deer deer-skin doorway eyes feathers Fell fen-lands fish forest garments ghosts Gitche Gumee Gitche Manito guests hand Heard heart heaven heron Hiawatha Homeward hunter Indian Kahgahgee Kenabeek Kwasind lake Lake Superior land Laughing Water leaped Listen little Hiawatha lodge look magic maiden maize Manito meadow mighty Minnehaha Mondamin moon morning mountains Mudjekeewis Nahma night o'er old Nokomis Osseo painted pine-trees pinions pleasant prairie Puk-Wudjies Ravens reedy islands river rock rose round rushing Sailed Sang sea-gulls shadows Shawondasee shining shining land shook shouting Shuh-shuh-gah silent singing Smote song Song of Hiawatha spake Spirit Star stood strangers streamlet sturgeon sunshine trembled tresses village Wabasso Wabun wampum war-club warriors waves Wenonah West-Wind westward Whispered wigwam wind wonder Yenadizze
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Page 34 - Mndway-aushka !" said the water. Saw the fire-fly, Wah-wah-taysee, Flitting through the dusk of evening, With the twinkle of its candle Lighting up the brakes and bushes ; And he...
Page 102 - As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman. Though she bends him, she obeys him ; Though she draws him, yet she follows ; Useless each without the other...
Page 33 - There the wrinkled old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes, Safely bound with reindeer sinews; Stilled his fretful wail by saying, "Hush! the Naked Bear will hear thee!" Lulled him into slumber singing, "Ewa-yea! my little owlet!
Page 236 - Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest- Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!
Page 37 - Go, my son, into the forest, Where the red deer herd together, Kill for us a famous roebuck, Kill for us a deer with antlers!" Forth into the forest straightway All alone walked Hiawatha Proudly, with his bow and arrows; And the birds sang round him, o'er him, "Do not shoot us, Hiawatha!
Page 36 - Then the little Hiawatha Learned of every bird its language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How they built their nests in summer, Where they hid themselves in winter. Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them "Hiawatha's Chickens.
Page 199 - NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.
Page 8 - Ye who love the haunts of Nature, Love the sunshine of the meadow, Love the shadow of the forest, Love the wind among the branches, And the rain-shower and the snow-storm, And the rushing of great rivers Through their palisades of pine-trees, And the thunder in the mountains...
Page 50 - Made his arrow-heads of sandstone, Arrow-heads of chalcedony, Arrow-heads of flint and jasper, Smoothed and sharpened at the edges, Hard and polished, keen and costly. With him dwelt his dark-eyed daughter, Wayward as the Minnehaha, With her moods of shade and sunshine, Eyes that smiled and frowned alternate, Feet as rapid as the river, Tresses flowing like the water, And as musical a laughter ; And he named her from the river, From the water-fall he named her, Minnehaha. Laughing Water.
Page 225 - Of the distant days that shall be. I beheld the westward marches Of the unknown, crowded nations. All the land was full of people, Restless, struggling, toiling, striving, Speaking many tongues, yet feeling But one heart-beat in their bosoms. In the woodlands rang their axes, Smoked their towns in all the valleys, Over all the lakes and rivers Rushed their great canoes of thunder.