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AN INDIAN TRADITION VERSIFIED FROM SCHOOLCRAFT	A
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It was a day of festive mirth	B
And bright the Indian wigwams shone	C
For 'twas a chieftain's bridal day	D
And gladness dwelt in every tone	C
But ere the glow of sunset hours	E
Upon the western hills was shed	F
Deep sadness rested on those bowers	E
The bride was numbered with the dead	F
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Days passed and still beside her tomb	G
The stricken lover bowed his head	F
And nightly through the forest's gloom	G
The stars beheld him with his dead	F
In vain did grey haired chieftains urge	H
The youthful hunter to the chase	I
He heard yet heeded not their words	J
For grief had chained him to the place	I
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They laid his war club by his side	K
His bow and arrows too they brought	L
And sang of glorious deeds of might	M
That stately chiefs of yore had wrought	L
But listlessly he heard their songs	N
Flung back his bow with sullen pride	K
And by the silent grave sat down	O
Where they had laid his youthful bride	K
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But pleasant memories came at length	P
Of what he learned in boyhood's day	D
Of a bright path that led from earth	B
O'er the blue mountains far away	D
To the best land where spirits dwell	Q
The home of GHEEZHA MONEDO	D
Where parted loved ones meet again	R
Beyond the reach of pain and woe	S
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Then from the ground the warrior rose	T
And bade the sleeping dust adieu	D
And started for the spirit shore	U
With the bright southern skies in view	D
Forests and hills and vales and streams	V
In his quick flight he left behind	D
Earth's stores of rare and lovely things	W
Had nought to charm the wand'rer's mind	D
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The snow that lay upon the earth	B
When he forsook his native hills	X
Had slowly melted from his path	Y
And sought the bed of crystal rills	X
The woods assumed a gayer hue	D
The flowers put on the bloom of spring	Z
The clear sky shone with brighter blue	D
And birds sped by on joyous wing	Z
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By these blest signs the warrior knew	D
That he was travelling aright	D
For old Tradition taught him so	X
And on he pressed with fresh delight	D
At length the shining path he spied	D
Winding amid a beauteous grove	A2
Up to the summit of a hill	B2
That rose the verdant plain above	C2
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High on the summit stood a lodge	D2
To which this mystic pathway led	D
Thither with undeclining zeal	E2
And ardent hopes the warrior sped	D
An old man met him at the door	U
With piercing eyes and long white hair	F2
Who took the wand'rer by the hand	D
And kindly bade him welcome there	F2
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I know thy quest the old man said	D
Leave here thy arrows and thy bow	G2
Thy body too thou must forsake	H2
Thither thy soul alone can go	X
Thou seest yon gulf and far away	D
Beyond a region bright and fair	F2
Whose blue hills in the distance rise	X
Warrior the land of souls is there'	F2
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My lodge the gate of entrance is	X
I'll guard whatever thou leav'st behind	D
And thou may'st hasten on thy way	D
A joyous spirit unconfined	D
Thus saying the aged man withdrew	F2
And the freed traveller sped away	D
As though his feet were changed to wings	X
Upon his fair but shadowy way	D
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Shadowy indeed for all he passed	D
Trees plants and flowers no substance wore	F2
And birds and beasts were but the souls	X
Of those that dwelt on earth before	F2
Yet birds swept by on joyous wing	Z
And pausing gazed the timid deer	F2
With fearless look as if to say	D
We have no strife or bloodshed here	F2
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Onward he went till just before	F2
A beauteous lake appeared in view	F2
And at the water's edge he spied	D
A snow white shining stone canoe	F2
Lightly the warrior sprang within	I2
And grasped the paddle by his side	D
When turning lo beside him sat	D
The spirit of his beauteous bride	D
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She sat within a light canoe	F2
And sweetly beckoned him away	D
To a green isle that like a gem	J2
Amidst the sparkling waters lay	D
High leaped the waves yet on they pressed	D
Wreath after wreath of foam they passed	D
Thus gliding o'er the water's breast	D
They reached the wished for shore at last	D
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Together o'er those verdant plains	X
'Mid fadeless flowers the lovers walked	D
And of their native hills and streams	X
And forest homes they freely talked	D
There were no storms no chilling winds	X
No frost no blight to dim the flowers	X
But never fading summer reigned	D
Amid those calm and peaceful bowers	X
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None hungered there no death no pain	K2
No blighted hope no sleepless fear	F2
No mourner sorrowed o'er the dead	D
And no bereaved one dropped a tear	F2
Serenest skies were spread above	C2
Bright flowers were blooming all around	D
And every eye was filled with love	C2
And music dwelt in every sound	D
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Here let me stay the warrior cried	D
On this secluded happy shore	F2
Here with my loved and beauteous bride	D
Where bitter partings are no more	F2
Thus spake the youth but ere the words	X
Had died away upon the breeze	X
There came a low sweet spirit voice	X
Murm'ring among the sheltering trees	X
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Warrior thus spake the breezy voice	X
Return unto thy native shore	F2
Resume again thy mortal frame	L2
And mingle with thy tribe once more	F2
Listen to him who keeps the gate	D
And he will tell thee what to do	F2
Obey his voice return to earth	B
And virtue's pleasant paths pursue	F2
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Thy time to die has not arrived	D
But let each gloomy thought be still	B2
Thy maiden waits thee on this shore	F2
Subject no more to pain or ill	B2
In never fading youth arrayed	D
Here shall ye dwell in peace at last	D
When thou hast done thy work on earth	B
And life's brief wanderings are past	D
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Return thou yet must lead thy tribe	M2
Through many a wild adventurous scene	N2
But when a good old age is reached	D
And thou their leader long hast been	I2
Then will I call thee to thy rest	D
In this bright island of the skies	X
Where thou mayst mingle with the blest	D
While long succeeding ages rise	X
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The chieftain woke 'twas fancy all	O2
The bright revealings of a dream	P2
Around him still the forest stood	D
Beneath the cold moon's placid beam	P2
Up from the ground he proudly rose	X
Took up his war club and his bow	G2
Quelled in his soul the bitter floods	X
Of disappointment and of woe	X
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And turning from the grave of her	F2
Who erst was all the world to him	Q2
He wiped away the gathering tears	X
That made his eagle glances dim	Q2
And with a proud majestic step	R2
He slowly from the grave withdrew	F2
Resolved to hope and labor on	S2
With better prospects in his view	F2
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Footnote Merciful Spirit	D

Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)

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