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For a while the salt brine leaves me	A
O'er my terraced rocks to fall	B
And my broad swift gliding waters	C
Olden memories recall	B
	-
Ere the tallest pines were seedlings	D
With my life stream these were blent	E
As a father's words like arrows	F
Straight to children's hearts are sent	E
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So my currents speeding downwards	G
Ever passing sing the same	H
Story of the days remembered	E
When the stranger people came	H
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Men of mighty limbs and voices	I
Bearing shining shields and knives	J
Painted gleamed their hair like evening	K
When the sun in ocean dives	J
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Blue their eyes and tall their stature	L
Huge as Indian shadows seen	M
When the sun through mists of morning	K
Casts them o'er a clear lake's sheen	M
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From before the great Pale faces	I
Fled the tribes to woods and caves	N
Watching thence their fearful councils	O
Where they talked beside the waves	N
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For they loved the shores and fashioned	E
Houses from its stones and there	P
Fished and rested danced at night time	Q
By their fire and torches' glare	P
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Sang loud songs before the pine logs	R
As they crackled in the flame	H
Raised and drank from bone cups shouting	K
Fiercely some strange spirit's name	H
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Turning to the morning's pathway	S
Cried they thus to gods and none	T
Dared to fight the bearded giants	U
Children of the fire and sun	T
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From their bodies fell our flint darts	V
Yet their arrows flew like rays	W
Flashing from the rocks where polished	E
By the ice in winter days	W
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Then the Indians prayed the spirits	X
Haunting river bank and hill	Y
To let hatred like marsh vapour	P
Rise among their foes and kill	Y
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And they seemed to heed for anger	P
Often maddened all the band	E
Fighting for some stones that glittered	E
Yellow on Ugond 's sand	E
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Seeing axe and spear head crimson	T
Hope illumined doubt and dread	E
And our land's despairing children	T
Called upon the mighty dead	E
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All the Northern night air shaking	K
Rose the ancients' bright array	P
Burning lines of battle breaking	K
Darkness into lurid day	P
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But the stranger hearts were hardened	E
Fearless slept they then at last	E
Our Great Spirit heard and answered	E
From his home in heaven vast	E
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For his waving locks were tempests	X
And the thunder cloud his frown	Z
Where he trod the earthquake followed	E
And the forests bowed them down	Z
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As his whirlwind struck the mountains	X
Rent and lifted swayed the ground	E
Winged knives of crooked lightning	K
Gleamed from skies and gulfs profound	E
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Floods from wonted channels driven	T
Roared at falling hillside's shock	A2
What was land became the torrent	E
What was lake became the rock	A2
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Now the river and the ocean	T
Whispering say Our floods alone	B2
See white skeletons slow moving	K
Near the olden walls of stone	B2
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Moving slow in stream and sea tide	E
There the stranger warriors sleep	C2
And their shades still cry in anguish	D2
Where the foaming waters leap	C2

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