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There's a spirit on the river there's a ghost upon the shore	A
They are chanting they are singing through the starlight evermore	A
As they steal amid the silence	B
And the shadows of the shore	A
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You can hear them when the Northern candles light the Northern sky	C
Those pale uncertain candle flames that shiver dart and die	C
Those dead men's icy finger tips	D
Athwart the Northern sky	C
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You can hear the ringing war cry of a long forgotten brave	E
Echo through the midnight forest echo o'er the midnight wave	E
And the Northern lanterns tremble	F
At the war cry of that brave	E
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And you hear a voice responding but in soft and tender song	G
It is Dawendine's spirit singing singing all night long	G
And the whisper of the night wind	H
Bears afar her Spirit song	G
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And the wailing pine trees murmur with their voice attuned to hers	I
Murmur when they 'rouse from slumber as the night wind through them stirs	I
And you listen to their legend	J
And their voices blend with hers	I
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There was feud and there was bloodshed near the river by the hill	K
And Dawendine listened while her very heart stood still	K
Would her kinsman or her lover	L
Be the victim by the hill	K
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Who would be the great unconquered who come boasting how he dealt	M
Death and show his rival's scalplock fresh and bleeding at his belt	M
Who would say O Dawendine	N
Look upon the death I dealt	M
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And she listens listens listens till a war cry rends the night	O
Cry of her victorious lover monarch he of all the height	O
And his triumph wakes the horrors	I
Kills the silence of the night	O
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Heart of her it throbs so madly then lies freezing in her breast	P
For the icy hand of death has chilled the brother she loved best	P
And her lover dealt the death blow	Q
And her heart dies in her breast	P
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And she hears her mother saying Take thy belt of wampum white	O
Go unto yon evil savage while he glories on the height	O
Sing and sue for peace between us	R
At his feet lay wampum white	O
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Lest thy kinsmen all may perish all thy brothers and thy sire	L
Fall before his mighty hatred as the forest falls to fire	L
Take thy wampum pale and peaceful	F
Save thy brothers save thy sire	L
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And the girl arises softly softly slips toward the shore	A
Loves she well the murdered brother loves his hated foeman more	A
Loves and longs to give the wampum	S
And she meets him on the shore	A
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Peace she sings O mighty victor Peace I bring thee wampum white	O
Sheathe thy knife whose blade has tasted my young kinsman's blood to night	O
Ere it drink to slake its thirsting	G
I have brought thee wampum white	O
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Answers he O Dawendine I will let thy kinsmen be	T
I accept thy belt of wampum but my hate demands for me	T
That they give their fairest treasure	L
Ere I let thy kinsmen be	T
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Dawendine for thy singing for thy suing war shall cease	U
For thy name which speaks of dawning Thou shalt be the dawn of peace	U
For thine eyes whose purple shadows tell of dawn	N
My hate shall cease	U
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Dawendine Child of Dawning hateful are thy kin to me	T
Red my fingers with their heart blood but my heart is red for thee	T
Dawendine Child of Dawning	G
Wilt thou fail or follow me	T
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And her kinsmen still are waiting her returning from the night	O
Waiting waiting for her coming with her belt of wampum white	O
But forgetting all she follows	V
Where he leads through day or night	O
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There's a spirit on the river there's a ghost upon the shore	A
And they sing of love and loving through the starlight evermore	A
As they steal amid the silence	B
And the shadows of the shore	A

Emily Pauline Johnson

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