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Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
«The Song of Hiawatha»

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their cloaks and shirts of deer-skin,Threw their weapons and their war-gear,Leaped into the rushing river,Washed the war-paint from their faces.Clear above them flowed the water,Clear and limpid from the footprintsOf the Master of Life descending;Dark below them flowed the water,Soiled and stained with streaks of crimson,As if blood were mingled with it!From the river came the warriors,Clean and washed from all their war-paint;On the banks their clubs they buried,Buried all their warlike weapons.Gitche Manito, the mighty,The Great Spirit, the creator,Smiled upon his helpless children!And in silence all the warriorsBroke the red stone of the quarry,Smoothed and formed it into Peace-Pipes,Broke the long reeds by the river,Decked them with their brightest feathers,And departed each one homeward,While the Master of Life, ascending,Through the opening of cloud-curtains,Through the doorways of the heaven,Vanished from before their faces,In the smoke that rolled around him,The Pukwana of the Peace-Pipe!

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he Four Winds




"Honor be to Mudjekeewis!"Cried the warriors, cried the old men,When he came in triumph homewardWith the sacred Belt of Wampum,From the regions of the North-Wind,From the kingdom of Wabasso,From the land of the White Rabbit.He had stolen the Belt of WampumFrom the neck of Mishe-Mokwa,From the Great Bear of the mountains,From the terror of the nations,As he lay asleep and cumbrousOn the summit of the mountains,Like a rock with mosses on it,Spotted brown and gray with mosses.Silently he stole upon himTill the red nails of the monsterAlmost touched him, almost scared him,Till the hot breath of his nostrilsWarmed the hands of Mudjekeewis,As he drew the Belt of WampumOver the round ears, that heard not,Over the small eyes, that saw not,Over the long nose and nostrils,The black muffle of the nostrils,Out of which the heavy breathingWarmed the hands of Mudjekeewis.Then he swung aloft his war-club,Shouted loud and long his war-cry,Smote the mighty Mishe-MokwaIn the middle
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