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leaving us heirs to amplest heritages of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages and giving tongues unto the silent dead	img2poems
take them o death and bear away whatever thou canst call thine own	img2poems
our little life is but a gust that bends the branches of thy tree and trails its blossoms in the dust	img2poems
like the beloved john to lay his head upon the saviour's breast and thus to journey on	img2poems
tell us of this nawadaha i should answer your inquiries straightway in such words as follow	img2poems
gitche manito the mighty the great spirit the creator smiled upon his helpless children	img2poems
thus was slain the mishe-mokwa he the great bear of the mountains he the terror of the nations	img2poems
no more work and no more weeping wahonowin wahonowin	img2poems
lulled him into slumber singing ewa-yea my little owlet	img2poems
saw the rainbow in the heaven in the eastern sky the rainbow whispered what is that nokomis	img2poems
sang the robin the opechee sang the bluebird the owaissa do not shoot us hiawatha	img2poems
all the village came and feasted all the guests praised hiawatha called him strong-heart soan-ge-taha	img2poems
welcome said he hiawatha to the kingdom of the west-wind	img2poems
ah kaween said mudjekeewis no indeed i will not touch it	img2poems
hold at length cried mudjekeewis hold my son my hiawatha	img2poems
i have put you to this trial but to know and prove your courage now receive the prize of valor	img2poems
then he smiled and said: to-morrow is the last day of your conflict is the last day of your fasting	img2poems
lazy kwasind said his mother in my work you never help me	img2poems
in the coldest days of winter i must break the ice for fishing with my nets you never help me	img2poems
at the door my nets are hanging dripping freezing with the water go and wring them yenadizze	img2poems
of your strong and pliant branches my canoe to make more steady make more strong and firm beneath me	img2poems
i will make a necklace of them make a girdle for my beauty and two stars to deck her bosom	img2poems
take my bait cried hiawatha down into the depths beneath him take my bait o sturgeon nahma	img2poems
you are ugudwash the sun-fish you are not the fish i wanted you are not the king of fishes	img2poems
then began the greatest battle that the sun had ever looked on that the war-birds ever witnessed	img2poems
still dissuading said nokomis bring not to my lodge a stranger from the land of the dacotahs	img2poems
thus it was he won the daughter of the ancient arrow-maker in the land of the dacotahs	img2poems
sang the robin the opechee happy are you laughing water having such a noble husband	img2poems
barred with streaks of red and yellow streaks of blue and bright vermilion shone the face of pau-puk-keewis	img2poems
over it the star of evening melts and trembles through the purple hangs suspended in the twilight	img2poems
you shall hear a tale of wonder hear the story of osseo son of the evening star osseo	img2poems
and her lovers the rejected handsome men with belts of wampum handsome men with paint and feathers	img2poems
changed into a weak old woman with a staff she tottered onward wasted wrinkled old and ugly	img2poems
and behold the earthen kettles all were changed to bowls of silver	img2poems
't was no bird he saw before him 't was a beautiful young woman with the arrow in her bosom	img2poems
in those days said hiawatha lo how all things fade and perish	img2poems
very crafty very cunning is the creeping spirit of evil was the meaning of this symbol	img2poems
then the figure seated singing playing on a drum of magic and the interpretation listen	img2poems
when i speak the wigwam trembles shakes the sacred lodge with terror hands unseen begin to shake it	img2poems
ay why do the living said they lay such heavy burdens on us	img2poems
i will slay this pau-puk-keewis slay this mischief-maker said he	img2poems
make me large said pau-puk-keewis make me large and make me larger larger than the other beavers	img2poems
here they made him large and larger made him largest of the beavers ten times larger than the others	img2poems
death to kwasind was the sudden war-cry of the little people	img2poems
then he turned and saw the strangers cowering crouching with the shadows said within himself who are they	img2poems
but he questioned not the strangers only spake to bid them welcome to his lodge his food his fireside	img2poems
from the realms of chibiabos hither have we come to try you hither have we come to warn you	img2poems
we are but a burden to you and we see that the departed have no place among the living	img2poems
cried he with his face uplifted in that bitter hour of anguish give your children food o father	img2poems
no my child said old nokomis 't is the night-wind in the pine-trees	img2poems
in his lodge beside a river close beside a frozen river sat an old man sad and lonely	img2poems
ah my son exclaimed the old man happy are my eyes to see you	img2poems
at each other looked the warriors looked the women at each other smiled and said it cannot be so	img2poems
from its mouth he said to greet him came waywassimo the lightning came the thunder annemeekee	img2poems
gitche manito the mighty the great spirit the creator sends them hither on his errand	img2poems
i beheld too in that vision all the secrets of the future of the distant days that shall be	img2poems
or the white goose waw-be-wawa with the water dripping flashing from its glossy neck and feathers	img2poems
i am going o nokomis on a long and distant journey to the portals of the sunset	img2poems
and the forests dark and lonely moved through all their depths of darkness sighed farewell o hiawatha	img2poems
and the waves upon the margin rising rippling on the pebbles sobbed farewell o hiawatha	img2poems
thus departed hiawatha hiawatha the beloved in the glory of the sunset	img2poems
the scene of the poem is among the ojibways on the southern shore of lake superior in the region between the pictured rocks and the grand sable	img2poems
thereupon answered john alden but looked not up from his writing truly the breath of the lord hath slackened the speed of the bullet he in his mercy preserved you to be our shield and our weapon	img2poems
still the captain continued unheeding the words of the stripling see how bright they are burnished as if in an arsenal hanging that is because i have done it myself and not left it to others	img2poems
green above her is growing the field of wheat we have sown there better to hide from the indian scouts the graves of our people lest they should count them and see how many already have perished	img2poems
nothing was heard in the room but the hurrying pen of the stripling busily writing epistles important to go by the mayflower ready to sail on the morrow or next day at latest god willing	img2poems
homeward bound with the tidings of all that terrible winter letters written by alden and full of the name of priscilla full of the name and the fame of the puritan maiden priscilla	img2poems
go to the damsel priscilla the loveliest maiden of plymouth say that a blunt old captain a man not of words but of actions offers his hand and his heart the hand and heart of a soldier	img2poems
you who are bred as a scholar can say it in elegant language such as you read in your books of the pleadings and wooings of lovers such as you think best adapted to win the heart of a maiden	img2poems
to and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing as in a foundering ship with every roll of the vessel washes the bitter sea the merciless surge of the ocean	img2poems
truly the heart is deceitful and out of its depths of corruption rise like an exhalation the misty phantoms of passion angels of light they seem but are only delusions of satan	img2poems
this is the hand of the lord it is laid upon me in anger for i have followed too much the heart's desires and devices worshipping astaroth blindly and impious idols of baal	img2poems
had he but spoken then perhaps not in vain had he spoken now it was all too late the golden moment had vanished	img2poems
yours is tender and trusting and needs a stronger to lean on so i have come to you now with an offer and proffer of marriage made by a good man and true miles standish the captain of plymouth	img2poems
welcome o wind of the east he exclaimed in his wild exultation welcome o wind of the east from the caves of the misty atlantic	img2poems
fierce in his soul was the struggle and tumult of passions contending love triumphant and crowned and friendship wounded and bleeding passionate cries of desire and importunate pleadings of duty	img2poems
still for a moment he stood and listened and stared at the vessel then went hurriedly on as one who seeing a phantom stops then quickens his pace and follows the beckoning shadow	img2poems
better to be in my grave in the green old churchyard in england close by my mother's side and among the dust of my kindred better be dead and forgotten than living in shame and dishonor	img2poems
soon he entered his door and found the redoubtable captain sitting alone and absorbed in the martial pages of caesar fighting some great campaign in hainault or brabant or flanders	img2poems
not far off is the house although the woods are between us but you have lingered so long that while you were going and coming i have fought ten battles and sacked and demolished a city	img2poems
but in the midst of his anger a man appeared at the doorway bringing in uttermost haste a message of urgent importance rumors of danger and war and hostile incursions of indians	img2poems
straightway the captain paused and without further question or parley took from the nail on the wall his sword with its scabbard of iron buckled the belt round his waist and frowning fiercely departed	img2poems
alden was left alone he heard the clank of the scabbard growing fainter and fainter and dying away in the distance	img2poems
god had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting then had sifted the wheat as the living seed of a nation so say the chronicles old and such is the faith of the people	img2poems
but unheeded fell this mild rebuke on the captain who had advanced to the table and thus continued discoursing leave this matter to me for to me by right it pertaineth	img2poems
silently out of the room then glided the glistening savage bearing the serpent's skin and seeming himself like a serpent winding his sinuous way in the dark to the depths of the forest	img2poems
just in the gray of the dawn as the mists uprose from the meadows there was a stir and a sound in the slumbering village of plymouth clanging and clicking of arms and the order imperative forward	img2poems
standish the stalwart it was with eight of his valorous army led by their indian guide by hobomok friend of the white men northward marching to quell the sudden revolt of the savage	img2poems
giants they seemed in the mist or the mighty men of king david giants in heart they were who believed in god and the bible ay who believed in the smiting of midianites and philistines	img2poems
over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning under them loud on the sands the serried billows advancing fired along the line and in regular order retreated	img2poems
foremost among them was alden all night he had lain without slumber turning and tossing about in the heat and unrest of his fever	img2poems
he had beheld miles standish who came back late from the council stalking into the room and heard him mutter and murmur sometimes it seemed a prayer and sometimes it sounded like swearing	img2poems
once he had come to the bed and stood there a moment in silence then he had turned away and said: i will not awake him let him sleep on it is best for what is the use of more talking	img2poems
nearer the boat stood alden with one foot placed on the gunwale one still firm on the rock and talking at times with the sailors seated erect on the thwarts all ready and eager for starting	img2poems
he too was eager to go and thus put an end to his anguish thinking to fly from despair that swifter than keel is or canvas thinking to drown in the sea the ghost that would rise and pursue him	img2poems
mournfully sobbed the waves at the base of the rock and above them bowed and whispered the wheat on the hill of death and their kindred seemed to awake in their graves and to join in the prayer that they uttered	img2poems
sun-illumined and white on the eastern verge of the ocean gleamed the departing sail like a marble slab in a graveyard buried beneath it lay for ever all hope of escaping	img2poems
what i thought was a flower is only a weed and is worthless out of my heart will i pluck it and throw it away and henceforward be but a fighter of battles a lover and wooer of dangers	img2poems
thus he revolved in his mind his sorry defeat and discomfort while he was marching by day or lying at night in the forest looking up at the trees and the constellations beyond them	img2poems
braves of the tribe were these and brothers gigantic in stature huge as goliath of gath or the terrible og king of bashan one was pecksuot named and the other was called wattawamat	img2poems

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