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Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
«The Song of Hiawatha»

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feathers,With his flute of reeds, a strangerWanders piping through the village,Beckons to the fairest maiden,And she follows where he leads her,Leaving all things for the stranger!"Pleasant was the journey homeward,Through interminable forests,Over meadow, over mountain,Over river, hill, and hollow.Short it seemed to Hiawatha,Though they journeyed very slowly,Though his pace he checked and slackenedTo the steps of Laughing Water.Over wide and rushing riversIn his arms he bore the maiden;Light he thought her as a feather,As the plume upon his head-gear;Cleared the tangled pathway for her,Bent aside the swaying branches,Made at night a lodge of branches,And a bed with boughs of hemlock,And a fire before the doorwayWith the dry cones of the pine-tree.All the travelling winds went with them,O'er the meadows, through the forest;All the stars of night looked at them,Watched with sleepless eyes their slumber;From his ambush in the oak-treePeeped the squirrel, Adjidaumo,Watched with eager eyes the lovers;And the rabbit, the Wabasso,Scampered from the path before them,Peering, peeping from his burrow,Sat erect upon his haunches,Watched with curious eyes the lovers.Pleasant was the journey homeward!All the birds sang loud and sweetlySongs of happiness and heart's-ease;Sang the bluebird, the Owaissa,"Happy are you, Hiawatha,Having such a wife to love you!"Sang the robin, the Opechee,"Happy are you, Laughing Water,Having such a noble husband!"From the sky the sun benignantLooked upon them through the branches,Saying to them, "O my children,Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,Life is checkered shade and sunshine,Rule by love, O Hiawatha!"From the sky the moon looked at them,Filled the lodge with mystic splendors,Whispered to them, "O my children,Day is restless, night is quiet,Man imperious, woman feeble;Half is mine, although I follow;Rule by patience, Laughing Water!"Thus it was they journeyed homeward;Thus it was that HiawathaTo the lodge of old NokomisBrought the moonlight, starlight, firelight,Brought the sunshine of his people,Minnehaha, Laughing Water,Handsomest of all the womenIn
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