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Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
«The Song of Hiawatha»

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with odors for him;Though the forests and the riversSang and shouted at his coming,Still his heart was sad within him,For he was alone in heaven.But one morning, gazing earthward,While the village still was sleeping,And the fog lay on the river,Like a ghost, that goes at sunrise,He beheld a maiden walkingAll alone upon a meadow,Gathering water-flags and rushesBy a river in the meadow.Every morning, gazing earthward,Still the first thing he beheld thereWas her blue eyes looking at him,Two blue lakes among the rushes.And he loved the lonely maiden,Who thus waited for his coming;For they both were solitary,She on earth and he in heaven.And he wooed her with caresses,Wooed her with his smile of sunshine,With his flattering words he wooed her,With his sighing and his singing,Gentlest whispers in the branches,Softest music, sweetest odors,Till he drew her to his bosom,Folded in his robes of crimson,Till into a star he changed her,Trembling still upon his bosom;And forever in the heavensThey are seen together walking,Wabun and the Wabun-Annung,Wabun and the Star of Morning.But the fierce KabibonokkaHad his dwelling among icebergs,In the everlasting snow-drifts,In the kingdom of Wabasso,In the land of the White Rabbit.He it was whose hand in AutumnPainted all the trees with scarlet,Stained the leaves with red and yellow;He it was who sent the snow-flake,Sifting, hissing through the forest,Froze the ponds, the lakes, the rivers,Drove the loon and sea-gull southward,Drove the cormorant and curlewTo their nests of sedge and sea-tangIn the realms of Shawondasee.Once the fierce KabibonokkaIssued from his lodge of snow-driftsFrom his home among the icebergs,And his hair, with snow besprinkled,Streamed behind him like a river,Like a black and wintry river,As he howled and hurried southward,Over frozen lakes and moorlands.There among the reeds and rushesFound he Shingebis, the diver,Trailing strings of fish behind him,O'er the frozen fens and moorlands,Lingering still among the moorlands,Though
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