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When wooded hill and grassy plain	A
With nature's beauties gaily dress'd	B
Lay calm beneath the red man's reign	A
And smiling in unconscious rest	B
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Then roam'd the forest's dusky son	C
In nature's wildness proudly free	D
From where Missouri's waters run	C
Far north to Hudson's icy sea	D
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From Labrador bleak lonely wild	E
Where seal 'mid icebergs sportive play	F
Far westward wander'd nature's child	E
And wigwam built near Georgia's Bay	F
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With bow of elm or hick'ry strong	G
And arrow arm'd with flinty head	H
He drew with practis'd hand the thong	G
And quick and straight the shaft it sped	H
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Full many a bounding deer or doe	I
Lay victims of his hand and eye	J
And many a shaggy buffalo	I
In lifeless bulk did lowly lie	J
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The forest did his wants supply	J
Content he was with nature's scheme	K
For fail'd the woods to satisfy	J
There came response from lake or stream	K
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His simple shell of birchen rind	L
Propell'd by skilful hands and strong	G
Down cataracts and rivers pass'd	M
And over lakes it went along	G
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With spears from stone or iv'ry wrought	N
Or hooks ingenious made of bone	O
He stores from out the waters brought	N
Nor look'd for forest gifts alone	O
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Contentment dwelt within his heart	P
And from his dark and piercing eye	J
His freedom showed unbred of art	P
His honor look'd unconsciously	D
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Untaught by books untrain'd by men	Q
Vers'd in the thoughts of bard or sage	R
He yet had read from nature's hand	S
A book unwrit yet wise its page	R
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One would have thought a man so bless'd	B
And richly too with manly pow'rs	D
Had surely some far higher quest	B
Than living thus in nature's bow'rs	D
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One would have thought that when he knew	T
The laws of God and cultur'd men	Q
His mind would take a nobler view	T
And light pursue with eager ken	Q
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But such is not his happy state	U
Since light of knowledge round him shone	O
He still stands sadly at the gate	U
And few still go where few have gone	V
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And whose the fault and whose the blame	W
That thus his mind is still so dim	X
That wisdom's lamp with shining flame	W
Still gives so pale a light for him	X
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Oh thinking white man look around	Y
And when you have discern'd the cause	D
Express yourself with certain sound	Y
Concerning this poor forest child	E
Who left his father's hunting ground	Y

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