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Hanford Lennox Gordon

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Waziya came down from the North	A
from the land of perpetual winter	B
From his frost covered beard issued forth the sharp biting	C
shrill whistling North wind	D
At the touch of his breath	E
the wide earth turned to stone and the lakes and the rivers	F
From his nostrils the white vapors rose	G
and they covered the sky like a blanket	H
Like the down of Maga BJ fell the snows	G
tossed and whirled into heaps by the North wind	D
Then the blinding storms roared on the plains	I
like the simoons on sandy Sahara	J
From the fangs of the fierce hurricanes	I
fled the elk and the deer and the bison	K
Ever colder and colder it grew	L
till the frozen ground cracked and split open	K
And harder and harder it blew	L
till the hillocks were bare as the boulders	F
To the southward the buffalos fled	M
and the white rabbits hid in their burrows	G
On the bare sacred mounds of the dead	M
howled the gaunt hungry wolves in the night time	N
The strong hunters crouched in their tees	O
by the lodge fires the little ones shivered	P
And the Magic Men BK danced to appease	O
in their teepee the wrath of Waziya	Q
But famine and fatal disease	O
like phantoms crept into the village	R
The Hard Moon BL was past but the moon	S
when the coons make their trails in the forest BM	N
Grew colder and colder The coon	S
or the bear ventured not from his cover	B
For the cold cruel Arctic simoon	S
swept the earth like the breath of a furnace	T
In the tee of Ta te psin the store	U
of wild rice and dried meat was exhausted	V
And Famine crept in at the door	U
and sat crouching and gaunt by the lodge fire	B
But now with the saddle of deer	W
and the gifts came the crafty Tamdoka	C
And he said Lo I bring you good cheer	W
for I love the blind Chief and his daughter	B
Take the gifts of Tamdoka for dear	W
to his heart is the dark eyed Winona	S
The aged Chief opened his ears	X
in his heart he already consented	Y
But the moans of his child and her tears	Z
touched the age softened heart of the father	B
And he said I am burdened with years	X
I am bent by the snows of my winters	F
Ta te psin will die in his tee	A2
let him pass to the Land of the Spirits	B2
But Winona is young she is free	A2
and her own heart shall choose her a husband	C2
The dark warrior strode from the tee	A2
low muttering and grim he departed	V
Let him die in his lodge muttered he	A2
but Winona shall kindle my lodge fire	B
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Then forth went Winona The bow	D2
of Ta te psin she took and his arrows	G
And afar o'er the deep drifted snow	S
through the forest she sped on her snow shoes	E2
Over meadow and ice covered mere	W
through the thickets of red oak and hazel	F2
She followed the tracks of the deer	W
but like phantoms they fled from her vision	S
From sunrise to sunset she sped	M
half famished she camped in the thicket	G2
In the cold snow she made her lone bed	M
on the buds of the birch BN made her supper	B
To the dim moon the gray owl preferred	P
from the tree top his shrill lamentation	S
And around her at midnight she heard	P
the dread famine cries of the gray wolves	H2
In the gloam of the morning again	S
on the trail of the red deer she followed	I2
All day long through the thickets in vain	S
for the gray wolves were chasing the roebucks	H2
And the cold hungry winds from the plain	S
chased the wolves and the deer and Winona	S
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BJ Wild goose	H2
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BK Medicine men	S
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BL January	A2
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BM February	A2
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BN The pheasant feeds on birch buds in winter Indians eat them when	S
very hungry	A2
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In the twilight of sundown she sat	J2
in the forest all weak and despairing	C
Ta te psin's bow lay at her feet	K2
and his otter skin quiver of arrows	H2
He promised he promised she said	M
half dreamily uttered and mournful	F2
And why comes he not Is he dead	M
Was he slain by the crafty Tamdoka	C
Must Winona alas make her choice	H2
make her choice between death and Tamdoka	C
She will die but her soul will rejoice	H2
in the far Summer land of the spirits	H2
Hark I hear his low musical voice	H2
he is coming My White Chief is coming	C
Ah no I am half in a dream	N
'twas the memory of days long departed	V
But the birds of the green Summer seem	N
to be singing above in the branches	H2
Then forth from her bosom she drew	L
the crucified Jesus in silver	B
In her dark hair the cold north wind blew	L
as meekly she bent o'er the image	R
O Christ of the Whiteman she prayed	L2
lead the feet of my brave to Kathaga	C
Send a good spirit down to my aid	L2
or the friend of the White Chief will perish	M2
Then a smile on her wan features played	L2
and she lifted her pale face and chanted	Y
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E ye he kta E ye he kta	Y
He kta ce e ye ce quon	S
Mi Wamdee ska he he kta	Y
He kta ce e ye ce quon	S
Mi Wamdee ska	C
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TRANSLATON	S
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He will come he will come	N
He will come for he promised	Y
My White Eagle he will come	N
He will come for he promised	Y
My White Eagle	F2
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Thus sadly she chanted and lo	S
allured by her sorrowful accents	H2
From the dark covert crept a red roe	S
and wonderingly gazed on Winona	S
Then swift caught the huntress her bow	D2
from her trembling hand hummed the keen arrow	S
Up leaped the red roebuck and fled	Y
but the white snow was sprinkled with scarlet	Y
And he fell in the oak thicket dead	Y
On the trail ran the eager Winona	S
Half famished the raw flesh she ate	Y
To the hungry maid sweet was her supper	B
Then swift through the night ran her feet	Y
and she trailed the sleek roebuck behind her	B
And the guide of her steps was a star	N2
the cold glinting star of Waziya BO	S
Over meadow and hilltop afar on the way	O2
to the lodge of her father	B
But hark on the keen frosty air	P2
wind the shrill hunger howls of the gray wolves	H2
And nearer still nearer the blood	Y
of the deer have they scented and follow	S
Through the thicket the meadow the wood	Y
dash the pack on the trail of Winona	S
Swift she speeds with her burden	S
but swift on her track fly the minions of famine	S
Now they yell on the view from the drift	Y
in the reeds at the marge of the meadow	S
Red gleam their wild ravenous eyes	H2
for they see on the hill side their supper	B
The dark forest echoes their cries	H2
but her heart is the heart of a warrior	B
From its sheath snatched Winona her knife	Q2
and a leg from the roebuck she severed	Y
With the carcass she ran for her life	Q2
to a low branching oak ran the maiden	S
Round the deer's neck her head strap BP was tied	Y
swiftly she sprang to the arms of the oak tree	A2
Quick her burden she drew to her side	Y
and higher she clomb on the branches	H2
While the maddened wolves battled and bled	Y
dealing death o'er the leg to each other	B
Their keen fangs devouring the dead	Y
yea devouring the flesh of the living	C
They raved and they gnashed and they growled	Y
like the fiends in the regions infernal	F2
The wide night re echoing howled	Y
and the hoarse North wind laughed o'er the slaughter	B
But their ravenous maws unappeased	Y
by the blood and the flesh of their fellows	H2
To the cold wind their muzzles they raised	Y
and the trail to the oak tree they followed	Y
Round and round it they howled for the prey	O2
madly leaping and snarling and snapping	C
But the brave maiden's keen arrows slay	O2
till the dead number more than the living	C
All the long dreary night time at bay	O2
in the oak sat the shivering Winona	S
But the sun gleamed at last and away	O2
skulked the gray cowards BQ down through the forest	Y
Then down dropped the deer and the maid	Y
Ere the sun reached the midst of his journey	A2
Her red welcome burden she laid	Y
at the feet of her famishing father	B
Waziya's wild wrath was appeased	Y
and homeward he turned to his teepee	R2
O'er the plains and the forest land breezed	Y
from the Islands of Summer the South wind	Y
From their dens came the coon and the bear	P2
o'er the snow through the woodlands they wandered	Y
On her snow shoes with stout bow and spear	W
on their trails ran the huntress Winona	S
The coon to his den in the tree	A2
and the bear to his burrow she followed	Y
A brave skillful hunter was she	A2
and Ta te psin's lodge laughed with abundance	H2
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BO Waziya's Star is the North star	N2
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BP A strap used in carrying burdens	H2
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BQ Wolves sometimes attack people at night but rarely if ever in	S
the day time If they have followed a hunter all night and treed him	N
they will skulk away as soon as the sun rises	H2