The Song of Hiawatha

Algonquin answered arrows beauty beaver behold beneath Big-Sea-Water birch canoe birds bison Bowl branches breath cents Chibiabos corn-fields cried Dacotahs Dance darkness deer deer-skin doorway eyes feathers fiery forest garments gayly Gitche Gumee Gitche Manito guests hand Heard heart heaven heron Homeward Iagoo Indian Kabibonokka Kahgahgee Kenabeek Kwasind lake Lake Superior land Laughing Water leaped legends Listen little Hiawatha lodge Longfellow looked magic Magicians maiden maize Manabozho Manito meadow Megissogwon mighty Minnehaha Mondamin Moon morning mountains Mudjekeewis Nahma Number o'er Ojibways old Nokomis Opechee Osseo Oweenee painted Pau-Puk-Keewis Peace-Pipe pine-trees pleasant poem prairie Ravens red deer river rose round rushes sailing Sang sea-gulls serpents shadows Shawondasee shining shouted Shuh-shuh-gah sighing silence singing Song of Hiawatha spake Spirit Star stood story sturgeon sunset sunshine tree-tops tresses tribes village Wabasso Wabun wampum war-club warriors Wendigoes Wenonah West-Wind westward whispered wigwam wild yellow