Listen to their words of wisdom,
Listen to the truth they tell you,

For the Master of Life has sent them
From the land of light and morning!"
On the shore stood Hiawatha,
Turned and waved his hand at parting;
On the clear and luminous water
Launched his birch canoe for sailing,
From the pebbles of the margin

Shoved it forth into the water;

Whispered to it, "Westward! westward!"
And with speed it darted forward.
And the evening sun descending
Set the clouds on fire with redness,
Burned the broad sky, like a prairie,
Left upon the level water a nitr
One long track and trail of splendor,
Down whose stream, as down a river,
Westward, westward Hiawatha

Sailed into the fiery sunset,
Sailed into the purple vapors,
Sailed into the dusk of evening.

And the people from the margin
Watched him floating, rising, sinking,
Till the birch canoe seemed lifted
High into that sea of splendor,
Till it sank into the vapors

Like the new moon slowly, slowly
Sinking in the purple distance.

And they said, "Farewell forever!" Said, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"

And the forests, dark and lonely,

Moved through all their depths of darkness,
Sighed, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"

And the waves upon the margin
Rising, rippling on the pebbles,
Sobbed, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"
And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,
From her haunts among the fen-lands,
Screamed, "Farewell, O Hiawatha !”
Thus departed Hiawatha,

Hiawatha the Beloved,

In the glory of the sunset,
In the purple mists of evening,
To the regions of the home-wind,
Of the Northwest wind Keewaydin,
To the Islands of the Blessed,
To the kingdom of Ponemah,
To the land of the Hereafter !

VOCABULARY

Adjidau'mo, the red squirrel. | Hiawatha, the Wise Man, the

Baim-wa'wa, the sound of the Inin'ewug, men, or pawns in

Big-Sea-Water, Lake Supe- Joss'akeed, a prophet.

Dush-kwo-Moon of Snow-shoes, Novem

ber.

Mudjekee'wis, the West-Wind;
father of Hiawatha.
Mudway-aush'ka, sound of
waves on a shore.
Mushkoda'sa, the grouse.
Nah'ma, the sturgeon.
Nah'ma-wusk', spearmint.
Na'gow Wudj'oo, the Sand
Dunes of Lake Superior.
Nee-ba-naw'baigs, water-spir-

its.
Nenemoo'sha, sweetheart.
Nepah'win, sleep.

Noko'mis, a grandmother;

mother of Wenonah.
No'sa, my father.
Nush'ka, look! look!
Odah'min, the strawberry.
Okahah'wis, the fresh-water
herring.
Ome'me, the pigeon.
Ona'gon, a bowl.

Onaway', awake.

Ope'chee, the robin.

Osselo, Son of the Evening

Star.
Owais'sa, the bluebird.

Mishe-Nah'ma, the Great Stur- Oweenee', wife of Osseo.

geon.
Miskodeed', the Spring-Beau-
ty, the Claytonia Virginica.
Monda'min, Indian corn.
Moon of Bright Nights, April.
Moon of Leaves, May.
Moon of Strawberries, June.
Moon of the Falling Leaves,
September.

Ozawa'beek, a round piece of
brass or copper in the Game
of the Bowl.
Pah-puk-kee'na, the grasshop-
per.
Pau'guk, death.

Pau-Puk-Kee'wis, the hand-
some Yenadizze, the Storm
Fool.

'auwa'ting, Saut Sainte Marie. | Ugh, yes.

Wa'wa, the wild-goose.

South-Waw'beek, a rock.

Waw-be-wa'wa, the white

Shesh'ebwug, ducks; pieces in Wawonais'sa, the whippoor