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Should you ask me whence these stories	A
Whence these legends and traditions	B
With the odors of the forest	C
With the dew and damp of meadows	D
With the curling smoke of wigwams	D
With the rushing of great rivers	D
With their frequent repetitions	D
And their wild reverberations	D
As of thunder in the mountains	D
I should answer I should tell you	E
From the forests and the prairies	D
From the great lakes of the Northland	F
From the land of the Ojibways	D
From the land of the Dacotahs	D
From the mountains moors and fen lands	D
Where the heron the Shuh shuh gah	G
Feeds among the reeds and rushes	D
I repeat them as I heard them	H
From the lips of Nawadaha	I
The musician the sweet singer	J
Should you ask where Nawadaha	I
Found these songs so wild and wayward	K
Found these legends and traditions	D
I should answer I should tell you	E
In the bird's nests of the forest	C
In the lodges of the beaver	J
In the hoof prints of the bison	L
In the eyry of the eagle	M
All the wild fowl sang them to him	N
In the moorlands and the fen lands	D
In the melancholy marshes	D
Chetowaik the plover sang them	H
Mahng the loon the wild goose Wawa	O
The blue heron the Shuh shuh gah	G
And the grouse the Mushkodasa	D
If still further you should ask me	P
Saying Who was Nawadaha	I
Tell us of this Nawadaha	I
I should answer your inquiries	D
Straightway in such words as follow	Q
In the vale of Tawasentha	R
In the green and silent valley	P
By the pleasant water courses	D
Dwelt the singer Nawadaha	I
Round about the Indian village	S
Spread the meadows and the corn fields	D
And beyond them stood the forest	C
Stood the groves of singing pine trees	D
Green in Summer white in Winter	J
Ever sighing ever singing	G
And the pleasant water courses	D
You could trace them through the valley	P
By the rushing in the Spring time	T
By the alders in the Summer	J
By the white fog in the Autumn	U
By the black line in the Winter	J
And beside them dwelt the singer	J
In the vale of Tawasentha	R
In the green and silent valley	P
There he sang of Hiawatha	R
Sang the Song of Hiawatha	R
Sang his wondrous birth and being	G
How he prayed and how he fasted	V
How he lived and toiled and suffered	K
That the tribes of men might prosper	J
That he might advance his people	M
Ye who love the haunts of Nature	J
Love the sunshine of the meadow	Q
Love the shadow of the forest	C
Love the wind among the branches	D
And the rain shower and the snow storm	W
And the rushing of great rivers	D
Through their palisades of pine trees	D
And the thunder in the mountains	D
Whose innumerable echoes	D
Flap like eagles in their eyries	D
Listen to these wild traditions	D
To this Song of Hiawatha	R
Ye who love a nation's legends	D
Love the ballads of a people	M
That like voices from afar off	X
Call to us to pause and listen	L
Speak in tones so plain and childlike	G
Scarcely can the ear distinguish	Y
Whether they are sung or spoken	L
Listen to this Indian Legend	Z
To this Song of Hiawatha	R
Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple	M
Who have faith in God and Nature	J
Who believe that in all ages	D
Every human heart is human	L
That in even savage bosoms	D
There are longings yearnings strivings	D
For the good they comprehend not	A2
That the feeble hands and helpless	D
Groping blindly in the darkness	D
Touch God's right hand in that darkness	D
And are lifted up and strengthened	Z
Listen to this simple story	P
To this Song of Hiawatha	R
Ye who sometimes in your rambles	D
Through the green lanes of the country	P
Where the tangled barberry bushes	D
Hang their tufts of crimson berries	D
Over stone walls gray with mosses	D
Pause by some neglected graveyard	B2
For a while to muse and ponder	J
On a half effaced inscription	L
Written with little skill of song craft	C2
Homely phrases but each letter	J
Full of hope and yet of heart break	G
Full of all the tender pathos	D
Of the Here and the Hereafter	J
Stay and read this rude inscription	L
Read this Song of Hiawatha	R

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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