The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-07
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Of maiden tell our elders,
Elders of our lear and lore,
Of our tribe and race the welders,
Mighty In the days of yore.
OF Winona. frst-born daughter.
Bravest of our woman kind;
Merry as the ripping water.
Playful as the skipping hind;
Blackeyed as the daisy flower,
Cheek as soft as ripening corn,
Flowing hair as falling shower
In the rising of the morn.
Modest, like. and endearing.
Joyful cleaned the lucid OrbS,
Dimpling laughter. rich and cheering,
Music of her soul absorbs.
Dressed the game, the buckskin tended.
Dug the tipsin, healing roots.
Beaded and the moccasin, mended.
Gathered rice; and SUNNY fruits.
Drew the bow. and sped the arrow.
Speared the fish in quickest flight
Found her way in dangers narrow,
Walked the plains on StaFlesS night.
And in cold and rainy weather,
Pitched the tipi, made. the fire.
And with love and word together
Cheered her lonely mother dire.
Fair Winona, maiden merry,
Maiden bright and fair to, see;
Fair WinOna, maiden cherry,
TOpmost in the village glee.
Orphan was the maiden merry.
Orphaned in her childhood day;
Slain in battles thickest scurry.
Moons and moons the widowed mother
Mourned the fallen hero dead;
With the melting ice, his brother
Nopka, widowed Nopka wed;
Harsh in manners, snarling, sneering.
Moping, cold, and taciturn,
Like a branded, coward fearing,
K.Hkage the husband stern:
Brav EST of the brave and proudest,
Many a tuft his girdIe bore.
When he spoke his voice the loudest,
Ruled the tribe to peace or war.
Like panther fleet and stealthy,
None surpassed him in the chase;
In his three score winters healthy.
Saw the children of his race.
Meier In dance the eagle feather,
But to festive war was worn;
Always dark as, murlky weather,
Feasts as follies would be scorn-
Oft apart, unseen and Sheltered.
In the passing of the moon.
Like a flower, sick and weltered.
. Waking from a midday sWoon.
Low and long in whispers dragging,
Oft with Wakan would he talk:
Setting village tongues a-wagging,
Guessing Of their secret walk.
Wakan was a, Medals thriving,
With his simpies cured disease;
In his deerskin tipi hiving
Hams OF roe. and steWs Of grease.
Sleepy syawning, always dreaming.
. Selfish, vain, of sprattling lung;
If not dreaming, vainly scheming.
With glib and oily tongue.
Coward, never saw q battle,
Never Joined the hunt for beaSty
But with smiles and sacred rattle.
Dish and spoon he brought to feast
In his tipi lived no woman,
Stirred the fire, or Lit his pipe;
H i'm to wed were stark fnhuman,
In his age and manhood ripe.
In the tipi sat the crony,
Smoking with his sterner brace,
Whose unfolding fea lures bOny
Trusted all the smiling face.
OF himself, the medas prattled.
or himself his former state,
OF himself and how he battled,
Of himself Of former date
Nopka stirred the wasting embers.
Added fuel, sat beside;
And Win0na-all remember
Thought him roguish to deride.
''Wakan, Wakan, bird of thunder"
-, Wedged Winona, ''Wakan bold.
Show thy courage and we wonder,
Wonder at thy deeds untold.
elders talk no. love the story
By their praising children told;
Leave to us they battled glory,
All thy deeds and actions bold"
Angered and dismayed and sneerfnS.
Anger9dz Wakan left the tent:
In his blOodred anger clearing
Blood-red In his foul intent.
'Tn my tipi she will wonder.
Wonder and her words relent."
|. Thought he, "giddy maidens blunder,
Know not what for. them is meant"
Seven moons had waned in passing.
Angered Wakan never came;
In the forest, need a-maSSing,
Sought he valor, sought he fame.
But Winona, maiden merry
Grew in beauty grew in form,
Like reddening, basking cherry,
In the baking sunshine warm.
Like the mlScOdeed t1) a-budding
Grew in beauty. heart and will.
Drinking all the sunshine flooding.
Flooding dewy mead and HILL
Could she love a selfish laggard.
Messed in many wfntry Years.
Love a-wagging, prattling bragrar
Vain in selfish, blandished cheersf
Near the river in the village
Chaske earned the need of praise.
Hunt and battle, fire and pillage
Were the pleasure of his days.
| Fleet and muscular and brawny.
Fulsome chest and giant arm,
Witty eye and forehead tawny.
Were his beauty, were his charm.
In the forest, singlehanded
Slew fierce and monster bear,
On his body deeply branded
Bore the reddish scars OF dare,
And Winona. maiden merry.
Loved this hero, loved the mani
And in JOY of illcome furry
Sought his aid and sought his plan.
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