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Never stoops the soaring vulture	A
On his quarry in the desert	B
On the sick or wounded bison	C
But another vulture watching	D
From his high aerial look out	E
Sees the downward plunge and follows	F
And a third pursues the second	G
Coming from the invisible ether	A
First a speck and then a vulture	A
Till the air is dark with pinions	F
So disasters come not singly	H
But as if they watched and waited	I
Scanning one another's motions	F
When the first descends the others	F
Follow follow gathering flock wise	F
Round their victim sick and wounded	I
First a shadow then a sorrow	J
Till the air is dark with anguish	K
Now o'er all the dreary North land	L
Mighty Peboan the Winter	A
Breathing on the lakes and rivers	F
Into stone had changed their waters	F
From his hair he shook the snow flakes	F
Till the plains were strewn with whiteness	F
One uninterrupted level	M
As if stooping the Creator	A
With his hand had smoothed them over	A
Through the forest wide and wailing	D
Roamed the hunter on his snow shoes	F
In the village worked the women	C
Pounded maize or dressed the deer skin	N
And the young men played together	A
On the ice the noisy ball play	O
On the plain the dance of snow shoes	F
One dark evening after sundown	P
In her wigwam Laughing Water	A
Sat with old Nokomis waiting	D
For the steps of Hiawatha	Q
Homeward from the hunt returning	D
On their faces gleamed the firelight	L
Painting them with streaks of crimson	C
In the eyes of old Nokomis	F
Glimmered like the watery moonlight	L
In the eyes of Laughing Water	A
Glistened like the sun in water	A
And behind them crouched their shadows	F
In the corners of the wigwam	R
And the smoke in wreaths above them	S
Climbed and crowded through the smoke flue	T
Then the curtain of the doorway	O
From without was slowly lifted	L
Brighter glowed the fire a moment	L
And a moment swerved the smoke wreath	U
As two women entered softly	H
Passed the doorway uninvited	L
Without word of salutation	C
Without sign of recognition	C
Sat down in the farthest corner	A
Crouching low among the shadows	F
From their aspect and their garments	F
Strangers seemed they in the village	V
Very pale and haggard were they	O
As they sat there sad and silent	L
Trembling cowering with the shadows	F
Was it the wind above the smoke flue	T
Muttering down into the wigwam	R
Was it the owl the Koko koho	W
Hooting from the dismal forest	L
Sure a voice said in the silence	F
These are corpses clad in garments	F
These are ghosts that come to haunt you	T
From the kingdom of Ponemah	R
From the land of the Hereafter	A
Homeward now came Hiawatha	Q
From his hunting in the forest	L
With the snow upon his tresses	F
And the red deer on his shoulders	F
At the feet of Laughing Water	A
Down he threw his lifeless burden	C
Nobler handsomer she thought him	R
Than when first he came to woo her	A
First threw down the deer before her	A
As a token of his wishes	F
As a promise of the future	A
Then he turned and saw the strangers	F
Cowering crouching with the shadows	F
Said within himself Who are they	O
What strange guests has Minnehaha	W
But he questioned not the strangers	F
Only spake to bid them welcome	R
To his lodge his food his fireside	L
When the evening meal was ready	H
And the deer had been divided	L
Both the pallid guests the strangers	F
Springing from among the shadows	F
Seized upon the choicest portions	F
Seized the white fat of the roebuck	X
Set apart for Laughing Water	A
For the wife of Hiawatha	Q
Without asking without thanking	D
Eagerly devoured the morsels	F
Flitted back among the shadows	F
In the corner of the wigwam	R
Not a word spake Hiawatha	Q
Not a motion made Nokomis	F
Not a gesture Laughing Water	A
Not a change came o'er their features	F
Only Minnehaha softly	H
Whispered saying They are famished	L
Let them do what best delights them	R
Let them eat for they are famished	L
Many a daylight dawned and darkened	L
Many a night shook off the daylight	L
As the pine shakes off the snow flakes	F
From the midnight of its branches	F
Day by day the guests unmoving	D
Sat there silent in the wigwam	R
But by night in storm or starlight	L
Forth they went into the forest	L
Bringing fire wood to the wigwam	R
Bringing pine cones for the burning	D
Always sad and always silent	L
And whenever Hiawatha	Q
Came from fishing or from hunting	D
When the evening meal was ready	H
And the food had been divided	L
Gliding from their darksome corner	A
Came the pallid guests the strangers	F
Seized upon the choicest portions	F
Set aside for Laughing Water	A
And without rebuke or question	C
Flitted back among the shadows	F
Never once had Hiawatha	Q
By a word or look reproved them	R
Never once had old Nokomis	F
Made a gesture of impatience	F
Never once had Laughing Water	A
Shown resentment at the outrage	Y
All had they endured in silence	F
That the rights of guest and stranger	A
That the virtue of free giving	D
By a look might not be lessened	L
By a word might not be broken	C
Once at midnight Hiawatha	Q
Ever wakeful ever watchful	M
In the wigwam dimly lighted	L
By the brands that still were burning	D
By the glimmering flickering firelight	L
Heard a sighing oft repeated	L
Heard a sobbing as of sorrow	J
From his couch rose Hiawatha	Q
From his shaggy hides of bison	C
Pushed aside the deer skin curtain	C
Saw the pallid guests the shadows	F
Sitting upright on their couches	F
Weeping in the silent midnight	L
And he said O guests why is it	L
That your hearts are so afflicted	L
That you sob so in the midnight	L
Has perchance the old Nokomis	F
Has my wife my Minnehaha	W
Wronged or grieved you by unkindness	F
Failed in hospitable duties	F
Then the shadows ceased from weeping	D
Ceased from sobbing and lamenting	D
And they said with gentle voices	F
We are ghosts of the departed	L
Souls of those who once were with you	T
From the realms of Chibiabos	F
Hither have we come to try you	T
Hither have we come to warn you	T
Cries of grief and lamentation	C
Reach us in the Blessed Islands	F
Cries of anguish from the living	D
Calling back their friends departed	L
Sadden us with useless sorrow	J
Therefore have we come to try you	T
No one knows us no one heeds us	F
We are but a burden to you	T
And we see that the departed	L
Have no place among the living	D
Think of this O Hiawatha	Q
Speak of it to all the people	M
That henceforward and forever	A
They no more with lamentations	F
Sadden the souls of the departed	L
In the Islands of the Blessed	L
Do not lay such heavy burdens	F
In the graves of those you bury	H
Not such weight of furs and wampum	R
Not such weight of pots and kettles	F
For the spirits faint beneath them	R
Only give them food to carry	H
Only give them fire to light them	R
Four days is the spirit's journey	H
To the land of ghosts and shadows	F
Four its lonely night encampments	F
Four times must their fires be lighted	L
Therefore when the dead are buried	L
Let a fire as night approaches	F
Four times on the grave be kindled	L
That the soul upon its journey	H
May not lack the cheerful firelight	L
May not grope about in darkness	F
Farewell noble Hiawatha	Q
We have put you to the trial	M
To the proof have put your patience	F
By the insult of our presence	F
By the outrage of our actions	F
We have found you great and noble	M
Fail not in the greater trial	M
Faint not in the harder struggle	M
When they ceased a sudden darkness	F
Fell and filled the silent wigwam	R
Hiawatha heard a rustle	M
As of garments trailing by him	R
Heard the curtain of the doorway	O
Lifted by a hand he saw not	L
Felt the cold breath of the night air	Z
For a moment saw the starlight	L
But he saw the ghosts no longer	A
Saw no more the wandering spirits	F
From the kingdom of Ponemah	R
From the land of the Hereafter	A