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The Myth of Hiawatha

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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Song of a Fairy Chief

Addressed to the winds on transferring his sister to a position as one of the planets in the morning sky.

Blow, winds, blow, my sister lingers
   From her dwelling in the sky,
Where the moon with rosy fingers
   Shall her cheeks with vermil dye.

There my earliest views directed,
   Shall from her their brilliance take
And her smiles through clouds reflected,
   Guide me on, by wood and lake.

While I range the highest mountains,
   Sport in valleys, green and low,
Or beside our Indian fountains,
   Raise my tiny hip hallo.

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