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Oh the long and dreary Winter	A
Oh the cold and cruel Winter	A
Ever thicker thicker thicker	A
Froze the ice on lake and river	A
Ever deeper deeper deeper	A
Fell the snow o'er all the landscape	B
Fell the covering snow and drifted	C
Through the forest round the village	D
Hardly from his buried wigwam	E
Could the hunter force a passage	D
With his mittens and his snow shoes	F
Vainly walked he through the forest	G
Sought for bird or beast and found none	H
Saw no track of deer or rabbit	I
In the snow beheld no footprints	J
In the ghastly gleaming forest	G
Fell and could not rise from weakness	K
Perished there from cold and hunger	A
Oh the famine and the fever	A
Oh the wasting of the famine	H
Oh the blasting of the fever	A
Oh the wailing of the children	H
Oh the anguish of the women	H
All the earth was sick and famished	L
Hungry was the air around them	M
Hungry was the sky above them	M
And the hungry stars in heaven	H
Like the eyes of wolves glared at them	M
Into Hiawatha's wigwam	E
Came two other guests as silent	N
As the ghosts were and as gloomy	O
Waited not to be invited	C
Did not parley at the doorway	P
Sat there without word of welcome	Q
In the seat of Laughing Water	A
Looked with haggard eyes and hollow	R
At the face of Laughing Water	A
And the foremost said Behold me	O
I am Famine Bukadawin	H
And the other said Behold me	O
I am Fever Ahkosewin	H
And the lovely Minnehaha	S
Shuddered as they looked upon her	A
Shuddered at the words they uttered	T
Lay down on her bed in silence	U
Hid her face but made no answer	A
Lay there trembling freezing burning	V
At the looks they cast upon her	A
At the fearful words they uttered	T
Forth into the empty forest	G
Rushed the maddened Hiawatha	W
In his heart was deadly sorrow	R
In his face a stony firmness	K
On his brow the sweat of anguish	X
Started but it froze and fell not	Y
Wrapped in furs and armed for hunting	V
With his mighty bow of ash tree	O
With his quiver full of arrows	Z
With his mittens Minjekahwun	H
Into the vast and vacant forest	G
On his snow shoes strode he forward	T
Gitche Manito the Mighty	O
Cried he with his face uplifted	A2
In that bitter hour of anguish	X
Give your children food O father	A
Give us food or we must perish	X
Give me food for Minnehaha	S
For my dying Minnehaha	S
Through the far resounding forest	G
Through the forest vast and vacant	N
Rang that cry of desolation	H
But there came no other answer	A
Than the echo of his crying	V
Than the echo of the woodlands	B2
Minnehaha Minnehaha	S
All day long roved Hiawatha	W
In that melancholy forest	G
Through the shadow of whose thickets	C2
In the pleasant days of Summer	A
Of that ne'er forgotten Summer	A
He had brought his young wife homeward	T
From the land of the Dacotahs	C2
When the birds sang in the thickets	C2
And the streamlets laughed and glistened	D2
And the air was full of fragrance	C2
And the lovely Laughing Water	A
Said with voice that did not tremble	E2
I will follow you my husband	D2
In the wigwam with Nokomis	C2
With those gloomy guests that watched her	A
With the Famine and the Fever	A
She was lying the Beloved	F2
She the dying Minnehaha	S
Hark she said I hear a rushing	V
Hear a roaring and a rushing	V
Hear the Falls of Minnehaha	S
Calling to me from a distance	C2
No my child said old Nokomis	C2
T is the night wind in the pine trees	C2
Look she said I see my father	A
Standing lonely at his doorway	P
Beckoning to me from his wigwam	E
In the land of the Dacotahs	C2
No my child said old Nokomis	C2
T is the smoke that waves and beckons	C2
Ah said she the eyes of Pauguk	V
Glare upon me in the darkness	C2
I can feel his icy fingers	C2
Clasping mine amid the darkness	C2
Hiawatha Hiawatha	W
And the desolate Hiawatha	W
Far away amid the forest	G
Miles away among the mountains	C2
Heard that sudden cry of anguish	X
Heard the voice of Minnehaha	S
Calling to him in the darkness	C2
Hiawatha Hiawatha	W
Over snow fields waste and pathless	C2
Under snow encumbered branches	C2
Homeward hurried Hiawatha	W
Empty handed heavy hearted	C
Heard Nokomis moaning wailing	V
Wahonowin Wahonowin	H
Would that I had perished for you	G2
Would that I were dead as you are	H2
Wahonowin Wahonowin	H
And he rushed into the wigwam	E
Saw the old Nokomis slowly	O
Rocking to and fro and moaning	V
Saw his lovely Minnehaha	S
Lying dead and cold before him	I2
And his bursting heart within him	I2
Uttered such a cry of anguish	X
That the forest moaned and shuddered	T
That the very stars in heaven	H
Shook and trembled with his anguish	X
Then he sat down still and speechless	C2
On the bed of Minnehaha	S
At the feet of Laughing Water	A
At those willing feet that never	A
More would lightly run to meet him	I2
Never more would lightly follow	R
With both hands his face he covered	T
Seven long days and nights he sat there	J2
As if in a swoon he sat there	J2
Speechless motionless unconscious	C2
Of the daylight or the darkness	C2
Then they buried Minnehaha	S
In the snow a grave they made her	A
In the forest deep and darksome	I2
Underneath the moaning hemlocks	C2
Clothed her in her richest garments	C2
Wrapped her in her robes of ermine	H
Covered her with snow like ermine	H
Thus they buried Minnehaha	S
And at night a fire was lighted	C
On her grave four times was kindled	K2
For her soul upon its journey	O
To the Islands of the Blessed	L2
From his doorway Hiawatha	W
Saw it burning In the forest	G
Lighting up the gloomy hemlocks	C2
From his sleepless bed uprising	V
From the bed of Minnehaha	S
Stood and watched it at the doorway	P
That it might not be extinguished	L
Might not leave her in the darkness	C2
Farewell said he Minnehaha	S
Farewell O my Laughing Water	A
All my heart is buried with you	G2
All my thoughts go onward with you	G2
Come not back again to labor	A
Come not back again to suffer	A
Where the Famine and the Fever	A
Wear the heart and waste the body	O
Soon my task will be completed	C
Soon your footsteps I shall follow	R
To the Islands of the Blessed	L2
To the Kingdom of Ponemah	I2
To the Land of the Hereafter	A

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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