The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-07
WINONA

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In the mead of blooming heather.
In the wood Of shade and leaf,
Played as children they together
Played in joy and wept in grief.
And the village blessed them, sayingt
Give them children. Manitou,
Children as the maiden playing,
Children as the hero grew"
Chaske strong. Winona merry.
Twas pleasure them to see.
She the basking. reddening cherry =
He the Stanch and supple tree.
With the coming of the summer,
Wakan to the tribe returned;
And his speech and ways none GUNNER.
In his breast his passion burned.
To the tfpi, sad and weary,
Wakan slept and told his tale;
OF his absence long and dreary.
OF his pleasures. Of his wall.
OF himself he glibly chattled,
Like resting squirrel fed
OF his courage, how he battled,
How as chief his men he led. -
How he fought as bird Of thunder,
Fought the Serpent Of the food,
How he cleft the foe asunder,
Dyed the river with his blood.
Added: "Sad my life hereafter,
Like a rock bedecked with moss;
And no childrens cheering laughter
To my name and tribe the loss"
Kakage, the warrior wary,
Spoke assent in whispers low:
"Wakan shall the daughter marry,
10 his tlpi she must go.
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''Old enough is she for marriage,
Old enough is she to we'd
Bravest children be her carriage,
Children of a tribal head"
Like a stone that strikes the water,
Like crashing thunder roll,
Smote the words the merry daughter
Smote the words her trembling soul
Like a banished, exied member,
Out she rushed the starless night,
To escape the ShreWd diSSembler,
To evade his torturing sight.
Up she clumb the sledges sloping.
Beating DER Remnica Lake; (2)
| In the darkness onward cropping
Where the cliffs the water break.
End her weary life by water,
End her drudging life Of shame.
[ Stay, Winona, stay, my daughter"
From the lake was hizzed her name.
On. the surface. grim and dashing
Swan two magas CD snowy whiteS
With their wings the water FLASHING,
| Closer. swimming, hove to- sight
Down they dived amid the weIter,
And the water ragged in storm;
And In the rush and noisy peter,
Rose a swimming giant form g. '1at' :
From the deep Of stormy water
Spoke the swimming giant formi
sHear. Winona, hear my daugfterg
Hear my counsel, hear my norm j..
/ 'FNebenawgis (4) praises daring. @
Daring in thy maiden vein; ~
| WakanS boldness Wakan's bearing,
Causes suffering, causes PAIN ~
. 'Seek thou not thy own disaster
At thy girdle hangs thy knife;
| End the nipping insult faster,
| XIII the braggart. take his life.
| ''Nebenawgis bears aversion,
To the coward, hateful wight:
| When our band fled in dispersion,
| Wdkan braVeSt was in flight.
| In his tfpi sleeps the braggart
Haste thy steps and take his lifes
Haste Wtnona, be not laggard
/ At thy girdle hangs thy knife
In the water plunged the giant,
| disappeared, was seen no more;
| And with hasty footsteps plant
Fleet Winona left the shore.
| Howling winds the forest Bonded.
| Twirled the fallen autumn leaf;
| On she fastened, ne'er amended
In her hatred to the chief.
| fastened to the lonely tipi,
| Where her hated sutton slept
| And with footsteps, noiseless creepy,
10 the snoring sleeper crept.
| From her wampurf girdle beaded
Drew the polished, subtle knife;
| And With nervous movement needed
Plunged 1t deeply, took his life.
From the tipi, done the slaughter,
Fled WfnOna, safe her hate;
| Fled the maiden, guilty daughter
Fled and sought her mating late.
And the sky with stormclouds laden,
| Not a planet tWinkled there;
| Howling winds disturbed the maiden
Restless tossing on her lair.
| In her bosom throbbed unceasing
| Torturing fear and laShing guilt:
| Securing fear and guilt unceasing
Made unsnug the warning guilt
Storming howled the angry gale.
! Dismal. cheerleSS, unadorning
| Broke the day in troubled wall.
| Found Winona sIeepless restless,
| Found her troubled harassed, Vexed;
/ Found Winona fallen, zestless,
| Found her worried and perplexed.
"a Water spirit
| Silent as the trackless water,
| Silent as the fashioned stone,
/ To herself the trembling daughter,
/ Kept her crime, it's inward groan.
With the dawning woke the village,
Slain the village found the chief;
| Howled its sorrow, as in pillage,
| Walled its plant, lament and grief.
Asked the doubling, asked the guessing
4 Asked the children, asked the brute;
! Curses fell In vengeance blessing,
Wonder grew IN silence mute.
| Medals craft and wisdom ended.
And their oracles were vain;
| Torn their garments, bodies rended.
I Twas nl-spent for further gain
/ (2A I.alra Par,fxl