Thursday, June 16, 2011

173. Hiawatha

This poem is probably MUCH longer than you think it is, and the lines you know from it are not the opening lines; they're about 20 pages in...

By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

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