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And the foremost said: "Behold me!
I am Famine, Bukadawin!"
And the other said: "Behold me!
I am Fever, Ahkosewin!" |
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By: liddee_lu
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And the lovely Minnehaha
Shuddered as they looked upon her,
Shuddered at the words they uttered,
Lay down on her bed in silence,
Hid her face, but made no answer;
Lay there trembling, freezing, burning
At the looks they cast upon her,
At the fearful words they uttered. |
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By: liddee_lu
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and right in this defining moment, it suits my mood - a good cry will heal and energise....
Forth into the empty forest
Rushed the maddened Hiawatha;
In his heart was deadly sorrow,
In his face a stony firmness;
On his brow the sweat of anguish
Started, but it froze and fell not. |
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By: liddee_lu
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do not mind me, I'm having a *blue* moment...lol
Wrapped in furs and armed for hunting,
With his mighty bow of ash-tree,
With his quiver full of arrows,
With his mittens, Minjekahwun,
Into the vast and vacant forest
On his snow-shoes strode he forward. |
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By: liddee_lu
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I treat myself to one every now and then..*smiles*
"Gitche Manito, the Mighty!"
Cried he with his face uplifted
In that bitter hour of anguish,
"Give your children food, O father!
Give us food, or we must perish!
Give me food for Minnehaha,
For my dying Minnehaha!" |
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By: liddee_lu
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Here come the waterworks...
Through the far-resounding forest,
Through the forest vast and vacant
Rang that cry of desolation,
But there came no other answer
Than the echo of his crying,
Than the echo of the woodlands,
"Minnehaha! Minnehaha!" |
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By: liddee_lu
25/03/2009
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All day long roved Hiawatha
In that melancholy forest,
Through the shadow of whose thickets,
In the pleasant days of Summer,
Of that ne'er forgotten Summer,
He had brought his young wife homeward
From the land of the Dacotahs;
When the birds sang in the thickets,
And the streamlets laughed and glistened,
And the air was full of fragrance,
And the lovely Laughing Water
Said with voice that did not tremble,
"I will follow you, my husband!" |
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By: lianne.kojak
25/03/2009
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We must be both having a blue moment Liddee xx
Tears streamimg....... |
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By: orange_roughie
25/03/2009
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liddee lovely, morning tears ah dear one, well share them and let them rain down on your woe's, and shed your trouble's away
now its time to play, what a brilliant day there is for us all |
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By: liddee_lu
25/03/2009
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Awww good morning to 2 of my favouritest g/f's ever...just doing some chores here....* tosses Lianne the tissues *
In the wigwam with Nokomis,
With those gloomy guests that watched her,
With the Famine and the Fever,
She was lying, the Beloved,
She, the dying Minnehaha. |
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By: liddee_lu
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Be back in a timely manner soon..*smiles through the tears*
"Hark!" she said; "I hear a rushing,
Hear a roaring and a rushing,
Hear the Falls of Minnehaha
Calling to me from a distance!"
"No, my child!" said old Nokomis,
"`T is the night-wind in the pine-trees!"
"Look!" she said; "I see my father
Standing lonely at his doorway,
Beckoning to me from his wigwam
In the land of the Dacotahs!"
"No, my child!" said old Nokomis.
"`T is the smoke, that waves and beckons!"
"Ah!" said she, "the eyes of Pauguk
Glare upon me in the darkness,
I can feel his icy fingers
Clasping mine amid the darkness!
Hiawatha! Hiawatha!" |
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By: liddee_lu
25/03/2009
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Gosh threads are moving along fast this morning...
And the desolate Hiawatha,
Far away amid the forest,
Miles away among the mountains,
Heard that sudden cry of anguish,
Heard the voice of Minnehaha
Calling to him in the darkness,
"Hiawatha! Hiawatha!" |
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By: liddee_lu
25/03/2009
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I know I've said this a zillion times but I'm totally bewitched by this poem..
Over snow-fields waste and pathless,
Under snow-encumbered branches,
Homeward hurried Hiawatha,
Empty-handed, heavy-hearted,
Heard Nokomis moaning, wailing:
"Wahonowin! Wahonowin!
Would that I had perished for you,
Would that I were dead as you are!
Wahonowin!. Wahonowin!" |
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By: liddee_lu
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and Hiawatha comes home and sees his lovely Laughing Water dead.....
And he rushed into the wigwam,
Saw the old Nokomis slowly
Rocking to and fro and moaning,
Saw his lovely Minnehaha
Lying dead and cold before him,
And his bursting heart within him
Uttered such a cry of anguish,
That the forest moaned and shuddered,
That the very stars in heaven
Shook and trembled with his anguish.
this is so so so so sad.... |
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By: david_adams@xtra.co.nz
25/03/2009
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Just dropped in to say "have a wonderful day Liddee" Training some people this morning and home office after lunch.
btw, you look geogeous today
*Smiles* |
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By: liddee_lu
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| Thank you David - just don't work too hard for the millionth time and you have a great day too...it's a beautiful day for sure...*smiles* |
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By: lianne.kojak
25/03/2009
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Liddee that verse is heart-wrenching
Thanks for the tissues xx |
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By: liddee_lu
25/03/2009
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Isn't it though Lianne, so utterly, utterly devasating,? such a wonderful, wonderful love between two people, now broken by death...oh I just weep through this chapter...
especially around these verses...
Then he sat down, still and speechless,
On the bed of Minnehaha,
At the feet of Laughing Water,
At those willing feet, that never
More would lightly run to meet him,
Never more would lightly follow.
With both hands his face he covered,
Seven long days and nights he sat there,
As if in a swoon he sat there,
Speechless, motionless, unconscious
Of the daylight or the darkness. |
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By: liddee_lu
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Then they buried Minnehaha;
In the snow a grave they made her
In the forest deep and darksome
Underneath the moaning hemlocks;
Clothed her in her richest garments
Wrapped her in her robes of ermine,
Covered her with snow, like ermine;
Thus they buried Minnehaha. |
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By: liddee_lu
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I'm sorry my partner in poetry Jane but I have to finish this chapter....
And at night a fire was lighted,
On her grave four times was kindled,
For her soul upon its journey
To the Islands of the Blessed.
From his doorway Hiawatha
Saw it burning In the forest,
Lighting up the gloomy hemlocks;
From his sleepless bed uprising,
From the bed of Minnehaha,
Stood and watched it at the doorway,
That it might not be extinguished, |
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By: liddee_lu
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That it might not be extinguished,
*Might not leave her in the darkness...
*(omitted) |
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By: liddee_lu
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"Farewell!" said he, "Minnehaha!
Farewell, O my Laughing Water!
All my heart is buried with you,
All my thoughts go onward with you!
Come not back again to labor,
Come not back again to suffer,
Where the Famine and the Fever
Wear the heart and waste the body.
Soon my task will be completed,
Soon your footsteps I shall follow
To the Islands of the Blessed,
To the Kingdom of Ponemah,
To the Land of the Hereafter!"
end of chapter..... |
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By: liddee_lu
25/03/2009
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This is the second to last chapter...
Part XXI: The White Man's Foot
In his lodge beside a river,
Close beside a frozen river,
Sat an old man, sad and lonely.
White his hair was as a snow-drift;
Dull and low his fire was burning,
And the old man shook and trembled,
Folded in his Waubewyon,
In his tattered white-skin-wrapper,
Hearing nothing but the tempest
As it roared along the forest,
Seeing nothing but the snow-storm,
As it whirled and hissed and drifted. |
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By: orange_roughie
25/03/2009
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liddee so tender and yet so tragic ah
jane will not be far away, and as they say the show must go on |
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By: orange_roughie
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All my heart is buried with you,
oh that is just so powerful you can almost touch it ah |
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