Gitchi Gummi Notebook "By the shores of Gitchi Gummi, By the shining Big-Sea-Water" (Longfellow): February 2009

Gitchi Gummi Dreams (Excerpts from the Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

With the odors of the forest
With the dew and damp of meadows,
...,
With the rushing of great rivers,
...,
"From the forests and the prairies,
From the great lakes of the Northland,
From the land of the Ojibways,
From the land of the Dacotahs,
...."

Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,
Feeds among the reeds and rushes.
....

"In the bird's-nests of the forest,
In the lodges of the beaver,
In the hoofprint of the bison,
In the eyry of the eagle!
...,"
In the moorlands and the fen-lands,
In the melancholy marshes;
Chetowaik, the plover, sang them,
Mahng, the loon, the wild-goose, Wawa,
The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,
And the grouse, the Mushkodasa!"
...,
By the rushing in the Spring-time,
By the alders in the Summer,
By the white fog in the Autumn,
By the black line in the Winter;

Gitchi Gummi Notebook "By the shores of Gitchi Gummi, By the shining Big-Sea-Water" (Longfellow)

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Thought for today, February 12, 2009

Gitchi Gummi Dreams (Excerpts from the Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

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