The Iroquois Side Of The Story Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I an Iroquois brave	A
Speak from my forest grave	A
Where by Utawa's wave	A
I sleep in glory	B
Listen pale faces then	C
Let years roll back again	C
While of Iroquois men	C
I tell the story	B
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We were the foremost race	D
That roamed the forest space	D
None stood before our face	D
Rousing our fierce wrath	E
By Stadacona's steep	F
Where Santee's waters sleep	F
Prairie broad valley deep	F
Have been our war path	E
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Eries by inland seas	G
Mountain bred Cherokees	G
Of us Hodenosaunees	G
With fear grew frantic	H
Feared us who made their home	I
Under the pinetrees lone	J
Where the winds lash to foam	I
The wild Atlantic	H
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Tribute from east and west	K
Of what we loved the best	K
Wampum belt necklace drest	K
Gladly they grant us	G
White men can wisely tell	L
How we fought how we fell	L
None could our glory quell	L
No tribe could daunt us	G
	-
Eagles for swiftness we	B
Panthers for subtlety	B
Wise when in counsel free	B
We took our stations	G
Where was the tribe so brave	A
Whose war craft could them save	A
From being conquered slave	A
Of the Six Nations	G
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Wah we all heard the news	G
Of the winged war canoes	G
Swift as the wild sea mews	G
Objects of wonder	M
Spreading their white wings wide	K
Breasting the mighty tide	K
Black lips from out their side	K
Spoke lofty thunder	M
	-
Upward their way they steer	N
Swifter than swimming deer	N
Furled they their white wings near	N
Green Hochelaga	H
We heard their name and fame	O
Sweeping like forest flame	O
To our great lodge it came	O
In fair Onondaga	H
	-
Shy on their native strand	K
The mild Algonquins stand	K
And gave the heart's right hand	K
To the white stranger	M
With speech and gesture fair	P
Gave a free welcome there	P
Proud they to spare and share	P
Fearing no danger	M
	-
Pale face and red man met	K
Smoked they the Calumet	K
And the peace feast was set	K
For the pale faces	G
All of sweet wild wood cheer	N
Fish from the river clear	N
Haunch of the antlered deer	N
Feast the two races	G
	-
If peace and trust were slain	Q
Whose the loss Whose the blame	O
Let the white scribes explain	Q
Our foes be our judges	G
They sat down as conquerors	G
Took the land took the furs	G
Let the braves starve like curs	G
Outside their lodges	G
	-
Vanished the hunter strong	H
Stilled was the husking song	H
No corn fields stretched along	H
In green Hochelaga	H
Like to the forest flame	O
Devouring the white man came	O
Soon spread their evil fame	O
To far Onondaga	H
	-
Should we be pale face prey	R
Fade like the mist away	R
Fiercely we turned to bay	R
Not like the others	G
The mild Algonquin race	G
Melted before their face	G
Leaving a roomy place	G
For their white brothers	G
	-
But we from sea to lake	H
Had made the wide earth shake	H
And braves like women quake	H
As they were drunken	S
We give our hunting grounds	G
Give up our burial mounds	G
Whimper like beaten hounds	G
Like the Algonquin	T
	-
We of the forest free	B
Born into liberty	B
We lords of all we see	B
In our own valleys	G
Their chief across the waves	G
Asked for Iroquois braves	G
To be the chained slaves	G
Of his war galleys	G
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Should we the mighty then	C
We the Iroquois men	C
Smoke the peace pipe with them	U
With these marauders	G
No we the feared in strife	V
Hunted the precious life	V
With the red scalping knife	V
Through all our borders	G
	-
If the fierce war whoop rung	H
In the Iroquois tongue	H
And the red warriors sprung	H
On the pale faces	G
Let then the guilt accursed	B
Fall heaviest and worst	B
On who raised the hatchet first	B
Of the two races	G
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In the sweet moon of leaves	G
When birds the soft nest weaves	G
And the free water heaves	G
Beneath the blue heavens	G
Upwards the white braves go	H
Vowed to meet us foe to foe	H
Landed at the wild Long Sault	B
In the calm spring even	T
	-
Danlac their biggest brave	A
Gathered a band to save	A
The rest from a bloody grave	A
From our revenges	G
Not for their own land they	R
Fought as they did that day	R
But to take ours away	R
And to have vengeance	G
	-
We vowed in warrior pride	B
To rise a rushing tide	B
And sweep the country wide	B
With a death riddance	G
To burn their palisades	G
And to the forest glades	G
In change for Indian maids	G
Bear their white maidens	G
	-
In painted plumed array	R
Hot panting for the fray	R
Our paddles beat the spray	R
Of the wild water	M
Shot through the rapids white	B
The war cry of our might	B
Rose as we flashed in sight	B
Eager for slaughter	M
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Then scouting watchers run	S
Then loud alarm of drum	W
Shouts of The foe they come	W
Rung through the forest	B
Then we three hundred strong	H
Burning with sense of wrong	H
Raised our loud battle song	H
Sounding the onset	B
	-
From the old fort there broke	H
Volleying flame and smoke	H
And the loud echoes woke	H
With pale face thunder	M
And shot in torrents fell	L
As if the hottest hell	L
Of which the black robes tell	L
Opened in wonder	M
	-
Woe to the white race woe	H
Wild we dashed at the foe	H
Showering blow on blow	H
On their defences	G
We with our bosoms bare	P
Surged up against their lair	P
They in a brave despair	P
Behind their fences	G
	-
Belched out a fiery hail	X
Like leaves in autumn pale	X
Fell we before that gale	X
In the death heaping	H
Till the young grass grew red	B
With the blood blanket spread	B
Under Iroquois dead	B
In glory sleeping	H
	-
Sank down the big round sun	S
And the red fight was done	S
To be again begun	S
In the grey dawning	H
Remained there but twenty two	Y
With whom we had to do	Y
Of that devoted few	Y
For whom death was yawning	H
	-
Charged we at the fort again	C
Axes crashed through heart and brain	Q
Heaps on heaps fell our slain	Q
The red price paying	H
We fell as leaves before the gale	X
But of the faces pale	X
None lived to tell the tale	X
Of that grim slaying	H
	-
The fort was taken at last	B
Blood and fire mingling fast	B
Death's bitterness was past	B
For none were breathing	H
Where lay our enemies	G
Side by side were swart allies	G
Brave and pale face mingled lies	G
Christian and heathen	S
	-
This feat of arms that gave	A
Unto these bravest brave	A
Death and a bloody grave	A
Is told in story	B
All the valour and the might	B
Of the pale face in the fight	B
When the story's told aright	B
We will share the glory	B