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Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
«The Song of Hiawatha»

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give to you the triumph!"Then he smiled, and said: "To-morrowIs the last day of your conflict,Is the last day of your fasting.You will conquer and o'ercome me;Make a bed for me to lie in,Where the rain may fall upon me,Where the sun may come and warm me;Strip these garments, green and yellow,Strip this nodding plumage from me,Lay me in the earth, and make itSoft and loose and light above me."Let no hand disturb my slumber,Let no weed nor worm molest me,Let not Kahgahgee, the raven,Come to haunt me and molest me,Only come yourself to watch me,Till I wake, and start, and quicken,Till I leap into the sunshine"And thus saying, he departed;Peacefully slept Hiawatha,But he heard the Wawonaissa,Heard the whippoorwill complaining,Perched upon his lonely wigwam;Heard the rushing Sebowisha,Heard the rivulet rippling near him,Talking to the darksome forest;Heard the sighing of the branches,As they lifted and subsidedAt the passing of the night-wind,Heard them, as one hears in slumberFar-off murmurs, dreamy whispers:Peacefully slept Hiawatha.On the morrow came Nokomis,On the seventh day of his fasting,Came with food for Hiawatha,Came imploring and bewailing,Lest his hunger should o'ercome him,Lest his fasting should be fatal.But he tasted not, and touched not,Only said to her, "Nokomis,Wait until the sun is setting,Till the darkness falls around us,Till the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,Crying from the desolate marshes,Tells us that the day is ended."Homeward weeping went Nokomis,Sorrowing for her Hiawatha,Fearing lest his strength should fail him,Lest his fasting should be fatal.He meanwhile sat weary waitingFor the coming of 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 AutumnFalls and floats upon the water,Falls and sinks into its bosom.And behold! the young Mondamin,With his soft and shining tresses,With his garments green and yellow,With his long and glossy plumage,Stood
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