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Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
«The Song of Hiawatha»

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man and woman,Standing hand in hand togetherWith their hands so clasped togetherThat they seemed in one united,And the words thus representedAre, "I see your heart within you,And your cheeks are red with blushes!"Next the maiden on an island,In the centre of an Island;And the song this shape suggestedWas, "Though you were at a distance,Were upon some far-off island,Such the spell I cast upon you,Such the magic power of passion,I could straightway draw you to me!"Then the figure of the maidenSleeping, and the lover near her,Whispering to her in her slumbers,Saying, "Though you were far from meIn the land of Sleep and Silence,Still the voice of love would reach you!"And the last of all the figuresWas a heart within a circle,Drawn within a magic circle;And the image had this meaning:"Naked lies your heart before me,To your naked heart I whisper!"Thus it was that Hiawatha,In his wisdom, taught the peopleAll the mysteries of painting,All the art of Picture-Writing,On the smooth bark of the birch-tree,On the white skin of the reindeer,On the grave-posts of the village.

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Hiawatha's Lamentation




In those days the Evil Spirits,All the Manitos of mischief,Fearing Hiawatha's wisdom,And his love for Chibiabos,Jealous of their faithful friendship,And their noble words and actions,Made at length a league against them,To molest them and destroy them.Hiawatha, wise and wary,Often said to Chibiabos,"O my brother! do not leave me,Lest the Evil Spirits harm you!"Chibiabos, young and heedless,Laughing shook his coal-black tresses,Answered ever sweet and childlike,"Do not fear for me, O brother!Harm and evil come not near me!"Once when Peboan, the Winter,Roofed with ice the Big-Sea-Water,When the snow-flakes, whirling downward,Hissed among the withered oak-leaves,Changed the pine-trees into wigwams,Covered all the earth with silence,Armed with arrows, shod with snow-shoes,Heeding not his brother's warning,Fearing not the Evil Spirits,Forth to hunt the deer with antlersAll alone went Chibiabos.Right across the
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