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Down the broad Ha Ha Wak pa BS	A
the band took their way to the Games at Keoza	A
While the swift footed hunters by land	B
ran the shores for the elk and the bison	C
Like magas BT ride the birchen canoes	A
on the breast of the dark winding river	D
By the willow fringed island they cruise	A
by the grassy hills green to their summits	A
By the lofty bluffs hooded with oaks	A
that darken the deep with their shadows	A
And bright in the sun gleam the strokes	A
of the oars in the hands of the women	C
With the band went Winona	E
The oar plied the maid with the skill of a hunter	D
They tarried a time on the shore of Remnica	F
the Lake of the Mountains BU	G
There the fleet hunters followed the deer	H
and the thorny pahin BV for the women	C
From the tees rose the smoke of good cheer	H
curling blue through the tops of the maples	A
Near the foot of a cliff that arose	A
like the battle scarred walls of a castle	I
Up towering in rugged repose	A
to a dizzy height over the waters	A
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BS The Dakota name for the Mississippi see note in Appendix	A
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BT Wild Geese	A
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BU Lake Pepin by Hennepin called Lake of Tears Called by the Dakotas	A
Remnee chah Mday Lake of the Mountains	A
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BV Pah hin the porcupine the quills of which are greatly prized for	J
ornamental work	F
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But the man wolf still followed his prey	K
and the step mother ruled in the teepee	L
Her will must Winona obey	K
by the custom and law of Dakotas	A
The gifts to the teepee were brought	M
the blankets and beads of the White men	N
And Winona the orphaned was bought	O
by the crafty relentless Tamdoka	F
In the Spring time of life in the flush	P
of the gladsome mid May days of Summer	D
When the bobolink sang and the thrush	P
and the red robin chirped in the branches	A
To the tent of the brave must she go	F
she must kindle the fire in his teepee	L
She must sit in the lodge of her foe	F
as a slave at the feet of her master	D
Alas for her waiting the wings	A
of the East wind have brought her no tidings	A
On the meadow the meadow lark sings	A
but sad is her song to Winona	E
For the glad warbler's melody brings	A
but the memory of voices departed	Q
The Day Spirit walked in the west	R
to his lodge in the land of the shadows	A
His shining face gleamed on the crest	R
of the oak hooded hills and the mountains	A
And the meadow lark hied to her nest	R
and the mottled owl peeped from her cover	D
But hark from the teepees a cry	S
Hear the shouts of the hurrying warriors	A
Are the feet of the enemy nigh	S
of the crafty and cruel Ojibways	A
Nay look on the dizzy cliff high	S
on the brink of the cliff stands Winona	E
Her sad face up turned to the sky	S
Hark I hear the wild wail of her death song	F
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My Father's Spirit look down look down	T
From your hunting grounds in the shining skies	A
Behold for the light of my heart is gone	U
The light is gone and Winona dies	A
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I looked to the East but I saw no star	V
The face of my White Chief was turned away	K
I harked for his footsteps in vain afar	V
His bark sailed over the Sunrise sea	A
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Long have I watched till my heart is cold	W
In my breast it is heavy and cold as a stone	X
No more shall Winona his face behold	W
And the robin that sang in her heart is gone	U
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Shall I sit at the feet of the treacherous brave	Y
On his hateful couch shall Winona lie	S
Shall she kindle his fire like a coward slave	Y
No a warrior's daughter can bravely die	S
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My Father's Spirit look down look down	T
From your hunting grounds in the shining skies	A
Behold for the light in my heart is gone	U
The light is gone and Winona dies	A
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Swift the strong hunters climbed as she sang	F
and the foremost of all was Tamdoka	F
From crag to crag upward he sprang	F
like a panther he leaped to the summit	Z
Too late on the brave as he crept	A2
turned the maid in her scorn and defiance	A
Then swift from the dizzy height leaped	A2
Like a brant arrow pierced in mid heaven	C
Down whirling and fluttering she fell	B2
and headlong plunged into the waters	A
Forever she sank mid the wail	C2
and the wild lamentation of women	C
Her lone spirit evermore dwells	A
in the depths of the Lake of the Mountains	A
And the lofty cliff evermore tells	A
to the years as they pass her sad story BW	K
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In the silence of sorrow the night	D2
o'er the earth spread her wide sable pinions	A
And the stars hid their faces and light	D2
on the lake fell the tears of the spirits	A
As her sad sisters watched on the shore	J
for her spirit to rise from the waters	A
They heard the swift dip of an oar	J
and a boat they beheld like a shadow	F
Gliding down through the night in the gray	K
gloaming mists on the face of the waters	A
'Twas the bark of DuLuth on his way	K
from the Falls to the Games at Keoza	A
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BW The Dakotas say that the spirit of Winona forever haunts the lake	F
They say that it was many many winters ago when Winona leaped from the	E
rock that the rock was then perpendicular to the water's edge and she	A
leaped into the lake but now the rock has partly crumbled down and the	E
waters have also receded so that they do not now reach the foot of the	E
perpendicular rock as of old	W

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