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Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
«The Song of Hiawatha»

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the water;Let me dive into the water,Let me rest there in your lodges;Change me, too, into a beaver!"Cautiously replied the beaver,With reserve he thus made answer:"Let me first consult the others,Let me ask the other beavers."Down he sank into the water,Heavily sank he, as a stone sinks,Down among the leaves and branches,Brown and matted at the bottom.On the dam stood Pau-Puk-Keewis,O'er his ankles flowed the streamlet,Spouted through the chinks below him,Dashed upon the stones beneath him,Spread serene and calm before him,And the sunshine and the shadowsFell in flecks and gleams upon him,Fell in little shining patches,Through the waving, rustling branches.From the bottom rose the beavers,Silently above the surfaceRose one head and then another,Till the pond seemed full of beavers,Full of black and shining faces.To the beavers Pau-Puk-KeewisSpake entreating, said in this wise:"Very pleasant Is your dwelling,O my friends! and safe from danger;Can you not, with all your cunning,All your wisdom and contrivance,Change me, too, into a beaver?""Yes!" replied Ahmeek, the beaver,He the King of all the beavers,"Let yourself slide down among us,Down into the tranquil water."Down into the pond among themSilently sank Pau-Puk-Keewis;Black became his shirt of deer-skin,Black his moccasins and leggings,In a broad black tail behind himSpread his fox-tails and his fringes;He was changed into a beaver."Make me large," said Pau-Puk-Keewis,"Make me large and make me larger,Larger than the other beavers.""Yes," the beaver chief responded,"When our lodge below you enter,In our wigwam we will make youTen times larger than the others."Thus into the clear, brown waterSilently sank Pau-Puk-Keewis:Found the bottom covered overWith the trunks of trees and branches,Hoards of food against the winter,Piles and heaps against the famine;Found the lodge with arching doorway,Leading into spacious chambers.Here they made him large and larger,Made him largest of the beavers,Ten times larger than the others."You shall be our ruler," said they;"Chief and
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