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I	A
Once in the winter	B
Out on a lake	C
In the heart of the north land	D
Far from the Fort	E
And far from the hunters	F
A Chippewa woman	G
With her sick baby	H
Crouched in the last hours	F
Of a great storm	I
Frozen and hungry	H
She fished through the ice	J
With a line of the twisted	K
Bark of the cedar	B
And a rabbit bone hook	L
Polished and barbed	M
Fished with the bare hook	L
All through the wild day	N
Fished and caught nothing	O
While the young chieftain	G
Tugged at her breasts	P
Or slept in the lacings	P
Of the warm tikanagan	G
All the lake surface	P
Streamed with the hissing	O
Of millions of iceflakes	P
Hurled by the wind	Q
Behind her the round	R
Of a lonely island	S
Roared like a fire	B
With the voice of the storm	I
In the deeps of the cedars	P
Valiant unshaken	G
She took of her own flesh	T
Baited the fish hook	L
Drew in a gray trout	U
Drew in his fellows	P
Heaped them beside her	B
Dead in the snow	G
Valiant unshaken	G
She faced the long distance	P
Wolf haunted and lonely	H
Sure of her goal	V
And the life of her dear one	G
Tramped for two days	P
On the third in the morning	O
Saw the strong bulk	W
Of the Fort by the river	B
Saw the wood smoke	X
Hand soft in the spruces	P
Heard the keen yelp	Y
Of the ravenous huskies	P
Fighting for whitefish	Z
Then she had rest	A2
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II	A
	-
Years and years after	B
When she was old and withered	B2
When her son was an old man	G
And his children filled with vigour	B
They came in their northern tour on the verge of winter	B
To an island in a lonely lake	C
There one night they camped and on the morrow	B
Gathered their kettles and birch bark	C2
Their rabbit skin robes and their mink traps	P
Launched their canoes and slunk away through the islands	P
Left her alone forever	B
Without a word of farewell	D2
Because she was old and useless	P
Like a paddle broken and warped	E2
Or a pole that was splintered	B2
Then without a sigh	A
Valiant unshaken	G
She smoothed her dark locks under her kerchief	F2
Composed her shawl in state	G2
Then folded her hands ridged with sinews and corded with veins	P
Folded them across her breasts spent with the nourishment of children	G
Gazed at the sky past the tops of the cedars	P
Saw two spangled nights arise out of the twilight	H2
Saw two days go by filled with the tranquil sunshine	G
Saw without pain or dread or even a moment of longing	O
Then on the third great night there came thronging and thronging	O
Millions of snowflakes out of a windless cloud	I2
They covered her close with a beautiful crystal shroud	I2
Covered her deep and silent	J2
But in the frost of the dawn	G
Up from the life below	B
Rose a column of breath	K2
Through a tiny cleft in the snow	B
Fragile delicately drawn	G
Wavering with its own weakness	P
In the wilderness a sign of the spirit	L2
Persisting still in the sight of the sun	G
Till day was done	G
Then all light was gathered up by the hand of God and hid in His breast	A2
Then there was born a silence deeper than silence	P
Then she had rest	A2

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