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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of A dramatization of Longfellow's
-Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-
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-Title: A dramatization of Longfellow's Hiawatha
-       A spectacular drama in six acts
-
-Authors: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-         A. L. De Vine
-
-Release Date: January 12, 2022 [eBook #67148]
-
-Language: English
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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DRAMATIZATION OF
-LONGFELLOW'S HIAWATHA ***
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-
-Transcriber’s Notes:
-
-  Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_
-    in the original text.
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-
-                         A DRAMATIZATION OF
-                            LONGFELLOW’S
-
-                              HIAWATHA.
-
-                  A Spectacular Drama in Six Acts.
-
-             Delineating the Characteristics and Customs
-                                 OF
-                  THE NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.
-
-
-           _Re-written, Revised, Arranged and Dramatized
-                        By A. L. DE VINE._
-
-      _Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1895
-                          By A. L. DE VINE.
-    In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington._
-
-                        ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
-
-      _Copyrighted in Great Britain and British Possessions,
-                       France, Germany, Italy,
-           Belgium, Denmark, Portugal and Switzerland._
-
-
-
-
-INTRODUCTORY.
-
-      To ye whose hearts are fresh and simple
-    Who have faith in God and Nature,
-    Who believe that in all ages
-    Every human heart is human,
-    That in even savage bosoms
-    There are longings, yearnings, strivings
-    For the good they comprehend not,
-    That the feeble hands and helpless,
-    Groping blindly in the darkness,
-    Touch God’s right hand in that darkness
-    And are lifted up and strengthened,
-
-Is submitted this portrayal of the primitive life of the American
-Indians in their native forest home. Fully realizing how rapidly the
-race is becoming extinct before the onward march of civilizing
-influences, and how little the people of this and other countries
-really know of such customs, dress, and peculiarities, it is believed
-this spectacular drama will be found historical, an educator to the
-young and interesting to ALL. In thus depicting the higher and better
-life of the Indian race, their mode of living, dress, pastimes, feats
-of skill, dances, wooings, wedding feasts, festivities, death scenes
-and legends, the author has adhered to the original language of the
-poem as closely as is consistent with a faithful dramatization thereof.
-
-This is the first and only known drama of this kind or character in
-existence, and no other subject, throughout the wide and varied field
-of poetry, offers like opportunities to the facile pen of the skilled
-playwright.
-
-
-
-
-SYNOPSIS OF SCENES AND INCIDENTS.
-
-
-    ACT I. THE PEACE PIPE.
-         Gitche Manitou (Great Spirit) descends from
-         Heaven and admonishes the tribes to cease warfare
-         and bloodshed—Indians discard weapons and war
-         paint—Gitche Manitou promises to send Hiawatha as
-         a guide—Fashions a Peace Pipe—Sets fire to the
-         forest and vanishes in smoke.
-
-    ACT II. HIAWATHA’S CHILDHOOD.
-         Tribe of Ojibways—Hiawatha a babe in Indian
-         cradle—Nokomis swinging cradle—Indian lullaby.
-
-    ACT III. HIAWATHA’S WOOING.
-         Scene 1—Hiawatha grown to manhood—Desires to wed
-         Minnehaha, a Dakotah maiden—Discussion—Departs
-         on journey—Nokomis sorrowing. Scene 2—Hiawatha
-         in forest—Shoots a deer—Shoulders it. Scene
-         3—Tribe of Dakotahs—Minnehaha Falls—Wigwam of
-         Arrow-maker—Hiawatha’s arrival and welcome—Wooing
-         of Minnehaha—Departure of Hiawatha and
-         Minnehaha—Climbing of Falls—Arrow-maker’s
-         despondency—Tableaux.
-
-    ACT IV. WEDDING FEAST.
-         Forest—Ojibway village—Arrival of Hiawatha
-         and Minnehaha—Welcome—Festivities—Feasts,
-         songs, feats of skill, games, dancing and
-         specialties—Tableaux.
-
-    ACT V. FEVER, FAMINE AND MINNEHAHA’S DEATH.
-         Winter—Tepee of Nokomis—Starvation—Minnehaha
-         begs for food—Enter Famine and Fever—Hiawatha
-         hunting food—Disheartened—Appeal to
-         Great Spirit—Minnehaha’s sufferings
-         and death—Lamentations—Hiawatha’s
-         return—Grief—Indian funeral—Tableaux.
-
-    ACT VI. HIAWATHA’S DEPARTURE.
-         Summer—Indian village—Canoe approaches
-         from distance containing Minnehaha as
-         angel—Music—Colored lights—Indians’
-         astonishment—Hiawatha awaits her coming—Joins
-         her—Hiawatha’s farewell—Canoe disappears—Tableaux.
-
-
-
-
-“HIAWATHA”
-
-DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
-
-
-    Gitche Manito; the Indian Great Spirit and Father of all Nations.
-    Hiawatha; the Prophet of Peace, of the tribe of Ojibways,
-              sent to guide the Indian nations.
-    Ancient Arrow-maker; Minnehaha’s Father.
-    Chibiabos; the Singer.
-    Pau-Puk-Keewis; the Dancer.
-    Bukadawin; Famine.
-    Ahkosewin; Fever.
-    Minnehaha; Hiawatha’s Bride, a Dakotah Maiden.
-    Old Nokomis; Hiawatha’s Grand-mother.
-    Miscellaneous Indian Braves.
-    Miscellaneous Indian Women.
-
-
-SYNOPSIS.
-
-    Act 1st.                                  The Peace Pipe.
-    Act 2nd.                            Hiawatha’s Childhood.
-
-                         }   Scene 1st. Hiawatha’s Discussion
-    Act 3rd.  Hiawatha’s }        with Nokomis and Departure.
-               Wooing.   }   Scene 2nd.   Hiawatha’s Journey.
-                         }   Scene 3rd.  Wooing of Minnehaha.
-                               { Home of Arrow-maker.
-                               { View of Minnehaha Falls.
-
-    Act 4th.                                   Wedding Feast.
-    Act 5th.          Fever and Famine and Minnehaha’s Death.
-    Act 6th. Hiawatha’s Reunion with Minnehaha and Departure.
-
-
-
-
-ACT I.
-
-THE PEACE PIPE.
-
-
-_Scenery_:
-
-    _Description as nearly as possible to follow
-        description according to the poem. In background,
-        high mountains. In foreground, lower hills, with
-        forest trees and Indian tents in the distance:
-        GITCHE MANITO; The great Spirit and FATHER of
-        all NATIONS descends from the clouds encircled
-        in a flood of bright lights of various colors;
-        strains of soft sweet Music, as from a distance,
-        accompanying his descent as though from Heaven to
-        Earth or to the top of the mountain. The Indian
-        representatives from all Nations in their peculiar
-        distinct dress of the several different tribes,
-        grouped here and there among the trees and rocks
-        are attracted by the smoke signal and are then seen
-        coming from all directions in full Indian war paint
-        and costume; when signaled to by GITCHE MANITO, the
-        Great Spirit, as per the following poem_:
-
-
-_Act and Description of Gitche Manito_:
-
-    On the Mountains of the Prairie,
-    On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,
-    Gitche Manito, the Mighty,
-    He the Master of Life DESCENDING,
-    On the red craigs of the quarry
-    Stood erect, and called the Nations,
-    Called the tribes of men together.
-    From his footprints flowed a river,
-    Leaped into the light of morning,
-    O’er the precipice plunging downward
-    Gleamed like Ishkoodah, the comet.
-    And the Spirit, stooping earthward,
-    With his finger on the meadow
-    Traced a winding pathway for it,
-    Saying to it,
-
-_Gitche Manito_:
-
-Run in this way!
-
-      From the red stone of the quarry
-    With his hand he broke a fragment,
-    Moulded it into a pipe-head,
-    Shaped and fashioned it with figures;
-    From the margin of the river
-    Took a long reed for a pipe-stem,
-    With its dark green leaves upon it;
-    Filled the pipe with bark of willow,
-    With the bark of the red willow;
-    Breathed upon the neighboring forest,
-    Made its great bows chafe together,
-    Till in flame they burst and kindled;
-    And erect upon the mountains
-    Gitche Manito, the Mighty,
-    Smoked the calumet, the Peace Pipe,
-    As a signal to the nations,
-      And the smoke rose slowly, slowly,
-    Through the tranquil air of morning,
-    First a single line of darkness,
-      From the vale of Tawasenthena,
-    From the Valley of Wyoming
-    From the groves of Tuscaloosa,
-    From the far-off Rocky Mountains,
-    From the Northern lakes and rivers.
-
-_Act, Indians_:
-
-    All the tribes beheld the signal,
-    Saw the distant smoke ascending,
-    The Pukwana of the Peace Pipe.
-
-
-_Indian Warriors_ (_to each other, pointing_):
-
-      Behold it, the Pukwana!
-    By this signal from afar off,
-    Bending like a wand of willow,
-    Waving like a hand that beckons,
-    Gitche Manito, the Mighty,
-    Calls the tribes of men together,
-    Calls the warriors to his council!
-
-_Act of Indian Tribes_:
-
-      Down the rivers o’er the prairies,
-    Came the warriors of the nations,
-    All the warriors drawn together
-    By the signal of the Peace Pipe
-    To the Mountains of the Prairie,
-    To the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry.
-      And they stood there on the meadow,
-    With their weapons and their war-gear,
-    Painted like the leaves of Autumn,
-    Painted like the sky of morning,
-    Wildly glaring at each other;
-    In their faces stern defiance,
-    In their hearts the feuds of ages,
-    The hereditary hatred
-    The ancestral thirst of vengeance.
-
-_Act, Gitche Manito_:
-
-      Gitche Manito, the mighty,
-    The Creator of the nations,
-    Looked upon them with compassion,
-    With paternal love and pity;
-    Over them he stretched his right hand.
-
-_Gitche Manito_:
-
-      O my children; my poor children!
-    Listen to the words of wisdom,
-    Listen to the words of warning!
-    From the lips of the Great Spirit,
-    From the Master of life, who made you!
-      I have given you lands to hunt in,
-    I have given you streams to fish in,
-    I have given you bear and bison,
-    I have given you roe and reindeer,
-    I have given you brant and beaver,
-    Filled the marshes full of wild fowl,
-    Filled the rivers full of fishes;
-    Why then are you not contented?
-    Why then will you hunt each other?
-      I am weary of your quarrels,
-    Weary of your wars and bloodshed,
-    Weary of your prayers for vengeance,
-    All your strength is in your union,
-    All your danger is in discord;
-    Therefore be at peace henceforward,
-    And as brothers live together.
-    “I will send a Prophet to you,
-    Hiawatha will I send to you
-    A deliverer of the nations,
-    Who shall guide you and shall teach you
-    Who shall toil and suffer with you.
-    If you listen to his counsels,
-    You will multiply and prosper;
-    If his warnings pass unheeded
-    You will fade away and perish!
-      Bathe now in the stream before you
-    Wash the war-paint from your faces,
-    Wash the blood stains from your fingers,
-    Bury your war clubs and your weapons,
-    Break the red stone from this quarry,
-    Mould and make it into Peace Pipes,
-    Take the reeds that grow beside you,
-    Deck them with your brightest feathers,
-    Smoke the calumet together,
-    And as brothers live henceforward!”
-
-_Act, Indians_:
-
-      Then upon the ground the warriors
-    Threw their cloaks and shirts of deer-skin,
-    Threw their weapons and their war-gear,
-    Leaped into the rushing river,
-    Washed the war-paint from their faces.
-    Clear above them flowed the water,
-    Clear and limpèd from the footprints
-    Of the Master of Life descending;
-    Dark below them flowed the water,
-    Soiled and stained with streaks of crimson,
-    As if blood were mingled with it.
-      From the river came the warriors.
-    Cleaned and washed from all their war-paint,
-    On the banks their clubs they buried,
-    Buried all their warlike weapons.
-
-_Act, Gitche Manito_:
-
-    Gitche Manito, the Mighty,
-    The Great Spirit, the Creator,
-    Smiled upon his helpless children.
-
-_Act, Indians_:
-
-      And in silence all the warriors
-    Broke the red stone of the quarry,
-    Smoothed and formed it into Peace Pipes,
-    Broke the long reeds by the river.
-    Decked them with their brightest feathers.
-
-    _A beautiful transformation. Scene and tableaux can
-        be given here with the groups of Indians, Bright
-        colored lights, soft Heavenly music, and GITCHE
-        MANITO ASCENDING again to Heaven in a CLOUD of
-        SMOKE._
-
-(_See following description._)
-
-    While the Master of Life, ASCENDING
-    Through the opening of cloud-curtains,
-    Through the doorways of the HEAVEN
-    Vanished from before their faces,
-    In the smoke that rolled around him.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-ACT II.
-
-HIAWATHA’S CHILDHOOD.
-
-
-_Scenery_:
-
-    _A short scene or acting tableaux, can be given
-        here, the scenery to follow the description in the
-        poem, HIAWATHA, a baby, in an Indian cradle swung
-        between the trees which is being rocked by old
-        NOKOMIS (his grandmother) while she is singing the
-        Lullaby song, Little Owlet._ (_See following
-        description._)
-
-    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.
-    There the wrinkled, old Nokomis
-    Nursed the little Hiawatha,
-    Rocked him in his linden cradle,
-    Bedded soft in moss and rushes,
-    Safely bound with reindeer sinews;
-    Stilled his fretful wail by saying,
-
-_Nokomis_:
-
-Hush! the Naked Bear will hear thee!
-
-Lulled him into slumber singing,
-
-_Nokomis Song_:
-
-    Ewa-yea! my little owlet!
-    Who is this, that lights the wigwam?
-    With his great eyes lights the wigwam?
-    Ewa-yea! my little owlet!
-    Wah-wah-taysee, little fire-fly,
-    Little, flitting, white-fire insect,
-    Little, dancing, white-fire creature,
-    Light us with your little candle,
-    Ere upon your bed I lay you
-    Ere in sleep you close your eyelids!
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-ACT III.
-
-HIAWATHA’S WOOING,
-
-TRIBE OF OJIBWAYS.
-
-
-Scene First. Hiawatha’s Discussion with Nokomis and Departure.
-
-_Scenery_:
-
-    _Same as Act II. This is supposed to be the TRIBE and
-        land of THE OJIBWAYS. Showing the INTERIOR of the
-        TEPEE of Old NOKOMIS. HIAWATHA; (tall, straight,
-        of majestic figure, commanding aspect, dashing
-        and handsome,) is seen shaping an arrow to fit a
-        bow. NOKOMIS; a majestic Indian woman as befits
-        HIAWATHA’S grandmother, sits making a robe of deer
-        skin or work of like kind. HIAWATHA sits working,
-        thinking, pondering._
-
-
-_Description of Hiawatha_:
-
-    Out of childhood into manhood
-    Now had grown my Hiawatha.
-    Skilled in all the craft of hunters,
-    Learned in all the lore of old men,
-    In all youthful sports and pastimes,
-    In manly arts and labors.
-      Swift of foot was Hiawatha;
-    He could shoot an arrow from him,
-    And run forward with such fleetness,
-    That the arrow fell behind him!
-    Strong of arm was Hiawatha;
-    He could shoot ten arrows upward,
-    Shoot them with such strength and swiftness,
-    That the tenth had left the bow-string
-    Ere the first to earth had fallen!
-      He had mittens, Minjekahwun,
-    Magic mittens made of deer-skin;
-    When upon his hands he wore them,
-    He could smite the rocks asunder
-    He could grind them into powder.
-      He had moccasins enchanted,
-    Magic moccasins of deer-skin:
-    When he bound them round his ankles,
-    When upon his feet he tied them,
-    At each stride a mile he measured!
-
-_Hiawatha_; (_speaking meditatively_):
-
-      As unto the bow the cord is,
-    So unto the man is woman,
-    Though she bends him, she obeys him,
-    Though she draws him, yet she follows,
-    Useless each without the other!
-
-_Nokomis_; (_in a warning and dissuading voice_):
-
-      Wed a maiden of your people,
-    Go not eastward, go not westward,
-    For a stranger, whom we know not!
-    Like a fire upon the hearth-stone
-    Is a neighbor’s homely daughter,
-    Like the starlight or the moonlight
-    Is the handsomest of strangers!
-
-_Hiawatha_; (_persuadingly_):
-
-      Dear old Nokomis,
-    Very pleasant is the firelight.
-    But I like the starlight better,
-    Better do I like the moonlight!
-
-_Nokomis_; (_gravely_):
-
-      Bring not here an idle maiden,
-    Bring not here a useless woman,
-    Hands unskillful, feet unwilling;
-    Bring a wife with nimble fingers,
-    Heart and hand that move together,
-    Feet that run on willing errands!
-
-_Hiawatha_, (_Smiling_):
-
-      In the land of the Dacotahs
-    Lives the Arrow-maker’s daughter,
-    Minnehaha, Laughing water,
-    Handsomest of all the women.
-    I will bring her to your wigwam,
-    She shall run upon your errands,
-    Be your starlight, moonlight, firelight,
-    Be the sunlight of my people!
-
-_Nokomis_, (_still dissuading_):
-
-      Bring not to my lodge a stranger
-    From the land of the Dacotahs!
-    Very fierce are the Dacotahs,
-    Often is there war between us.
-    There are feuds yet unforgotten,
-    Wounds that ache and still may open!
-
-_Hiawatha_, (_laughing_):
-
-      For that reason, if no other,
-    Would I wed the fair Dacotah,
-    That our tribes might be united,
-    That old feuds might be forgotten,
-    And old wounds be healed forever!
-
-    _During this conversation HIAWATHA stops his work and
-        prepares for his journey, OLD NOKOMIS becoming more
-        and more earnest and entreating as his preparations
-        proceed: when he goes, she follows and tries to
-        detain him, then watches him out of sight, and the
-        curtain falls while she stands alone, weeping,
-        despondent and sorrowing at the door of her wigwam._
-
-_Description of Hiawatha_:
-
-    Dressed for travel, armed for hunting;
-    Dressed in deer-skin shirt and leggings,
-    Richly wrought with quills and wampum;
-    On his head his eagle-feathers.
-    Round his waist his belt of wampum,
-    In his hand his bow of ash-wood,
-    Strung with sinews of the reindeer;
-    In his quiver oaken arrows,
-    Tipped with jasper, winged with feathers;
-    With his mittens, Minjekahwun,
-    With his moccasins enchanted.
-
-_Act, Hiawatha_:
-
-    Thus departed Hiawatha
-    To the land of the Dacotahs,
-    To the land of handsome women;
-
-_Act, Nokomis_:
-
-    Homeward weeping went Nokomis
-    Sorrowing for her Hiawatha.
-
-
-ACT III.
-
-Scene Second. Hiawatha’s Journey.
-
-_Scenery:_
-
-    _A short scene can be given here, showing a deep
-        forest, also giving a view of Hiawatha upon his
-        journey and with his bow and arrow, shooting the
-        deer which he takes MINNEHAHA as a gift, and lays
-        at her feet on his arrival._
-
-_Act, Hiawatha_:
-
-      Through the forest deep and lonely,
-    Then he journeyed without resting,
-    Till he heard the cataract’s laughter,
-    Heard the Falls of Minnehaha
-    Calling to him through the silence.
-    Standing, Listening, he murmured,
-
-_Hiawatha_:
-
-    Pleasant is the sound!
-    Pleasant is the voice that calls me!
-
-    On the outskirts of the forest,
-    Twixt the shadow and the sunshine,
-    Herds of fallow deer were feeding.
-    But they saw not Hiawatha;
-
-_Hiawatha (whispering to his bow)_:
-
-Fail not!
-
-_Hiawatha (whispering to his arrow)_:
-
-Swerve not!
-
-    Sent it singing on its errand,
-    To the red heart of the roebuck;
-    Threw the deer across his shoulder,
-    And sped forward without pausing.
-
-
-ACT III.
-
-“TRIBE OF THE DACOTAHS,”
-
-HOME OF THE ARROW-MAKER.
-
-Scene Third. Wooing of Minnehaha.
-
-_Scenery_:
-
-    _As perfect an imitation as possible of the Scenery
-        of and about MINNEHAHA FALLS. With the FALLS,
-        also Very High Rocks in the background. In the
-        foreground, at the base of Minnehaha Falls, a
-        wigwam, representing the appearance and interior
-        of a wigwam of the DACOTAH TRIBE. MINNEHAHA to be
-        tall, straight, dashing and handsome. (See the
-        following Description.)_
-
-      In the land of the Dacotahs,
-    Where the Falls of Minnehaha
-    Flash and gleam among the oak-trees,
-    Laugh and leap into the valley.
-    Very spacious was the wigwam,
-    Made of deer-skin dressed and whitened,
-    With the Gods of the Dacotahs
-    Drawn and painted on its curtains,
-    And so tall the doorway, hardly
-    Hiawatha stooped to enter,
-    Hardly touched his eagle-feathers
-    As he entered at the doorway.
-
-_Act, Arrow-maker_:
-
-      At the doorway of his wigwam
-    Sat the ancient Arrow-maker,
-    In the land of the Dacotahs,
-    Making arrow-heads of jasper,
-    Arrow-heads of chalcedony.
-
-_Description of Minnehaha_:
-
-    At his side in all her beauty,
-    Sat the lovely Minnehaha,
-    Sat his daughter, Laughing water
-    Plaiting mats of flags and rushes;
-    Feet as rapid as the river,
-    Tresses flowing like the water,
-    And as musical a laughter;
-    And he named her from the river,
-    From the water-fall he named her,
-    Minnehaha, Laughing Water
-
-_Act, Minnehaha_:
-
-      She was thinking of a hunter,
-    From another tribe and country,
-    Young and tall and very handsome.
-    On the mat her hands lay idle,
-    And her eyes were very dreamy.
-      Through her thoughts she heard a footstep,
-    Heard a rustling in the branches,
-
-_Act, Hiawatha_:
-
-    And with glowing cheek and forehead,
-    With the deer upon his shoulders,
-    Suddenly from out the woodlands
-    Hiawatha stood before them.
-
-_Act, Arrow-maker_:
-
-      Straight the ancient Arrow-maker
-    Looked up gravely from his labor,
-    Laid aside the unfinished arrow,
-    Bade him enter at the doorway,
-    Saying, as he rose to meet him,
-
-_Arrow-maker_:
-
-Hiawatha, you are welcome!
-
-_Act, Hiawatha_:
-
-      At the feet of Laughing Water
-    Hiawatha laid his burden,
-    Threw the red deer from his shoulders;
-
-_Act, Minnehaha_:
-
-    And the maiden looked up at him,
-    Looked up from her mat of rushes,
-    Said with gentle look and accent.
-
-_Minnehaha_:
-
-You are welcome, Hiawatha!
-
-_Act, Minnehaha_:
-
-      Then uprose the Laughing Water,
-    From the ground fair Minnehaha,
-    Laid aside her mat unfinished,
-    Brought forth food and set before them,
-    Water brought them from the brooklet,
-    Gave them food in earthen vessels,
-    Gave them drink in bowls of bass-wood.
-
-    _The following conversation to be carried on between
-        the ARROW-MAKER and HIAWATHA while MINNEHAHA brings
-        the food etc., and sets before them._
-
-_Hiawatha, (with much expression)_:
-
-    “You know of my wondrous birth and being,
-     How I prayed and how I fasted,
-     How I lived, and toiled, and suffered,
-     That the tribes of men might prosper,
-     That I might advance my people!”
-     Dear Old Nokomis who has nursed me in my childhood
-           needs a daughter now to help her.
-     To the lodge of old Nokomis
-     I would bring the moonlight, starlight, firelight,
-     Bring the sunshine to my people,
-     Give me Minnehaha, Laughing Water,
-     Handsomest of all the women
-     In the land of the Dacotahs,
-     In the land of handsome women.
-     There is happiness and plenty
-     In the land of the Ojibways,
-     In the pleasant land and peaceful.
-
-_Act, Minnehaha_:
-
-    See the face of Laughing Water,
-    Peeping from behind the curtain,
-    Hear the rustling of her garments
-    From behind the waving curtain,
-    Listened while the guest was speaking,
-    Listened while her father answered,
-    But not once her lips she opened,
-    Not a single word she uttered.
-      Yes, as in a dream she listened
-    To the words of Hiawatha.
-
-_Hiawatha, (with deep feeling)_:
-
-      After many years of warfare,
-    Many years of strife and bloodshed,
-    There is peace between the Ojibways
-    And the tribe of the Dacotahs.
-
-    _Hiawatha; In his earnestness rising, speaking
-        slowly, with Great Expression, and turning toward
-        Minnehaha._
-
-    “That this peace may last forever,
-     And our hands be clasped more closely,
-     And our hearts be more united,
-     Give me as my wife this maiden,
-     Minnehaha, Laughing Water,
-     Loveliest of Dacotah women!”
-
-_Act, Hiawatha_:
-
-    _Reseats himself, looking expectantly and earnestly
-        at the Arrow-maker for his reply._
-
-_Act, Arrow-maker_:
-
-      And the ancient Arrow-maker
-    Paused a moment ere he answered,
-    Smoked a little while in silence,
-    Looked at Hiawatha proudly,
-    Fondly looked at Laughing Water,
-    Then made answer very gravely:
-
-_Arrow-maker (with deep feeling)_:
-
-    Yes, if Minnehaha wishes;
-    Let your heart speak, Minnehaha.
-
-_Act, Minnehaha_:
-
-    And the lovely Laughing Water
-    Seemed more lovely, as she stood there,
-    Neither willing nor reluctant.
-
-_Act, Minnehaha_:
-
-    _Turns FIRST to ONE and THEN to the OTHER, hesitates
-        at thought of leaving her father, goes to him, then
-        turning, looking at Hiawatha, hesitates._
-
-_Act, Minnehaha_:
-
-    Then, she went to Hiawatha
-    Softly took the seat beside him,
-    While she said, and blushed to say it.
-
-_Minnehaha_:
-
-I will follow you my husband!
-
-_Arrow-maker_:
-
-_Rising, going over and speaking to Hiawatha._
-
-    You have wooed and won my maiden,
-    With your stories of the North-land!
-    Happy are you, Hiawatha,
-    Having such a wife to love you!
-
-_Arrow-maker; turning, speaking to his daughter_:
-
-    Happy are you, Laughing Water,
-    Having such a noble husband!
-
-_Arrow-maker, (to both)_:
-
-       O my children,
-     Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,
-     Life is checkered shade and sunshine,
-     Rule by love, O Hiawatha!
-    “O my children,
-     Day is restless, night is quiet,
-     Man imperious, women feeble;
-     Half is hers although she follows
-     Rule by patience, Laughing Water!”
-
-_Act, Hiawatha and Minnehaha_:
-
-      From the wigwam he departed,
-    Leading with him Laughing Water;
-    Hand in hand they went together,
-    Left the old man standing lonely
-    At the doorway of his wigwam.
-
-
-_Arrow-maker, very sorrowfully_:
-
-Fare thee well, O Minnehaha!
-
-_Act, Arrow-maker_:
-
-    And the ancient Arrow-maker
-    Turned again unto his labor,
-    Sat down by his sunny doorway,
-    Murmuring to himself, and saying:
-
-_Arrow-maker, (meditatively and with much expression)_:
-
-    “Thus it is our daughters leave us
-     Those we love, and those who love us!
-     Just when they have learned to help us,
-     Just when we are old and lean upon them,
-     Comes a youth with flaunting feathers,
-     With his flute of reeds, a stranger
-     Wanders piping through the village,
-     Beckons to the fairest maiden,
-     And she follows where he leads her,
-     Leaving father, mother, home, friends,
-     Leaving ALL things, for the Stranger.”
-
-    _Hiawatha and Minnehaha are to be seen (while
-        Arrow-maker is thus sitting at the doorway and
-        meditating); first winding in and out among the
-        trees, then climbing the rocks, coming into view,
-        then disappearing behind rocks; then again being
-        seen wending their way higher and higher upon the
-        rocks, and when the SUMMIT of the MINNEHAHA FALLS
-        is reached, they are seen, Hiawatha, with his arm
-        around Minnehaha, pointing to the wigwam in the
-        valley below. The Old Arrow-maker sees them at the
-        same time, rises, (shading his eyes with his hand)
-        and looks upward at them. HOME SWEET HOME is played
-        behind the scenes, soft and low, with stringed
-        instruments, while they are climbing the rocks, and
-        various colored lights are thrown upon the scene,
-        making an effective and beautiful tableaux._
-
-
-
-
-ACT IV.
-
-HIAWATHA’S WEDDING FEAST.
-
-
-_Scenery_:
-
-    _Scene first; same as Act III. Lake shore with
-        forest, with the Tepee of Old Nokomis on the shore
-        of the lake. Many Indians grouped here and there
-        with NOKOMIS waiting and watching for the arrival
-        of HIAWATHA and MINNEHAHA who are seen approaching
-        from a distance, NOKOMIS and the Indians coming
-        joyously forward to welcome them. In this scene are
-        introduced an imitation of, or, better still, a
-        Genuine Indian Feast; Indian Music; Indian Songs;
-        Sports and Pastimes, and Indian Dances in Native
-        Costumes by Native Indians—if possible._
-
-_Description_:
-
-      Sumptuous was the feast Nokomis
-    Made at Hiawatha’s wedding;
-    All the bowls were made of bass-wood,
-    White and polished very smoothly.
-    All the spoons of horn of bison,
-    Black and polished very smoothly.
-      She had sent through all the village
-    And the wedding guests assembled,
-    Clad in all their richest raiment,
-    Robes of fur and belts of wampum,
-    Splendid with their paint and plumage,
-    Beautiful with beads and tassels.
-
-_Act, Nokomis, (seeing Hiawatha and Bride approaching)_:
-
-    With a shout and song of triumph,
-    On the shore stood old Nokomis,
-
-_Nokomis_:
-
-    We bid you welcome Hiawatha,
-    We have waited long your coming,
-    Welcome to your home and people.
-
-_Hiawatha, (leading forward Minnehaha)_:
-
-      Dear Old Nokomis,
-    A daughter have I brought to you
-    From the land of the Dacotahs,
-    Minnehaha, Laughing Water,
-    Who shall run upon your errands,
-    Be the sunlight of my people.
-
-_Nokomis, to Minnehaha_:
-
-      The Objibways welcome the Dacotah maiden,
-    You shall be my starlight, moonlight, firelight;
-    You shall be the sunlight of our people.
-
-_Indians_:
-
-Honor be to Hiawatha.
-
-_Act, Indians_:
-
-    And the people of the village
-    Welcomed them with songs and dances,
-    Made a joyous feast, and shouted:
-
-_Description of Feast_:
-
-      First they ate the sturgeon, Nahma,
-    And the pike, the Maskenoza,
-    Caught and cooked by old Nokomis;
-    Then on pemmican they feasted,
-    Pemmican and buffalo marrow,
-    Haunch of deer and hump of bison,
-    Yellow cakes of the Mondamin,
-    And the wild rice of the river.
-
-_Act, Hiawatha, Minnehaha and Nokomis_:
-
-      But the gracious Hiawatha,
-    And the lovely Laughing Water,
-    And the careful old Nokomis,
-    Tasted not the food before them,
-    Only waited on the others,
-    Only served their guests in silence.
-
-_Act, Nokomis_:
-
-      And when all the guests had finished,
-    Old Nokomis, brisk and busy,
-    From an ample pouch of otter,
-    Filled the red stone pipes for smoking
-    With tobacco from the South-land,
-      Then she said to Chibiabos,
-    To the friend of Hiawatha,
-    To the sweetest of all singers,
-    To the best of all musicians.
-
-_Nokomis_:
-
-      Sing to us, O Chibiabos!
-    Songs of love and songs of longing,
-    That the feast may be more joyous,
-    That the time may pass more gayly,
-    And our guests be more contented!
-
-_Act, Chibiabos_:
-
-      And the gentle Chibiabos
-    Sang in accents sweet and tender,
-    Sang in tones of deep emotion,
-    Songs of love and songs of longing;
-    Looking still at Hiawatha,
-    Looking at fair Laughing Water,
-    Sang he softly, sang in this wise:
-
-_Chibiabos Song_:
-
-      Onaway! Awake, beloved!
-    Thou the wild-flower of the forest!
-    Thou the wild-bird of the prairie!
-    Thou with eyes so soft and fawn-like!
-      If thou only lookest at me,
-    I am happy, I am happy,
-    As the lilies of the prairie,
-    When they feel the dew upon them!
-      Sweet thy breath is as the fragrance
-    Of the wild-flowers in the morning,
-    As their fragrance is at evening,
-    In the Moon when leaves are falling.
-      Does not all the blood within me
-    Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
-    As the springs to meet the sunshine,
-    In the Moon when nights are brightest?
-      Onaway! my heart sings to thee,
-    Sings with joy when thou art near me,
-    As the sighing, singing branches
-    In the pleasant Moon of Strawberries.
-      When thou art not pleased, beloved,
-    Then my heart is sad and darkened,
-    As the shining river darkens,
-    When the clouds drop shadows on it!
-      When thou smilest, my beloved,
-    Then my troubled heart is brightened,
-    As in sunshine gleam the ripples
-    That the cold wind makes in rivers.
-      Smiles the earth, and smiles the waters,
-    Smile the cloudless skies above us,
-    But I lose the way of smiling
-    When thou art no longer near me!
-      I myself, myself, behold me!
-    Blood of my beating heart, behold me!
-    O awake, awake, beloved!
-    Onaway! awake, beloved!
-
-_Nokomis, to Pau-Puk-Keewis_:
-
-      O Pau-Puk-Keewis,
-    Dance for us your merry dances,
-    Dance the Beggar’s Dance to please us,
-    That the feast may be more joyous,
-    That the time may pass more gayly,
-    And our guests be more contented!
-
-_Act, Pau-Puk-Keewis_:
-
-      Then the handsome Pau-Puk-Keewis,
-    He the Idle Yenadizze,
-    He the merry mischief-maker,
-    Whom the people called the Storm-Fool,
-    Rose among the guests assembled.
-      Skilled was he in sports and pastimes,
-    In the game of quoits and ball play,
-    In all games of skill and hazard.
-      He was dressed in shirt of doe-skin,
-    White and soft, and fringed with ermine,
-    All inwrought with beads of wampum;
-    He was dressed in deer-skin leggings,
-    Fringed with hedgehog quills and ermine,
-    And in moccasins of buckskin,
-    Thick with quills and beads embroidered.
-    On his head were plumes of swan’s down,
-    On his heels were tails of foxes,
-    In one hand a fan of feathers,
-    And a pipe was in the other.
-      Barred with streaks of red and yellow,
-    Streaks of blue and bright vermilion,
-    Shone the face of Pau-Puk-Keewis.
-    From his forehead fell his tresses,
-    Smooth, and parted like a woman’s.
-    Shining bright with oil, and plaited,
-    Hung with braids of scented grasses,
-    As among the guests assembled,
-    To the sound of flutes and singing,
-    To the sound of drums and voices,
-    Rose the handsome Pau-Puk-Keewis,
-    And began his mystic dances
-
-_Dance, Pau-Puk-Keewis_:
-
-      First he danced a solemn measure,
-    Very slow in step and gesture,
-    In and out among the pine-trees,
-    Through the shadows and the sunshine,
-    Treading softly like a panther.
-    Then more swiftly and still swifter,
-    Whirling, spinning round in circles,
-    Leaping o’er the guests assembled,
-    Eddying round and round the wigwam,
-    Till the leaves went whirling with him,
-    Till the dust and wind together
-    Swept in eddies round about him.
-      Then along the sandy margin
-    Of the lake, the Big-Sea-Water,
-    On he sped with frenzied gestures.
-    Stamped upon the sand, and tossed it
-    Wildly in the air around him;
-    Till the wind became a whirlwind,
-    Till the sand was blown and sifted
-    Like great snowdrifts o’er the landscape,
-    Sand Hills of the Nagow Wudjoo!
-      Thus the merry Pau-Puk-Keewis
-    Danced his Beggar’s Dance to please them,
-    And, returning, sat down laughing
-    There among the guests assembled,
-    Sat and fanned himself serenely
-    With his fan of turkey-feathers.
-
-_Act, Chibiabos_:
-
-      Then again sang Chibiabos,
-    Sang a song of love and longing,
-    In those accents sweet and tender,
-    In those tones of pensive sadness,
-    Sang a maiden’s lamentation
-    For her lover, her Algonquin.
-
-_Song_:
-
-_The original of this song may be found in Oneata, p. 15_.
-
-      When I think of my beloved,
-    Ah me! think of my beloved,
-    When my heart is thinking of him,
-    O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!
-      “Ah me! when I parted from him,
-    Round my neck he hung the wampum,
-    As a pledge, the snow-white wampum,
-    O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!
-      “I will go with you he whispered,
-    Ah me! to your native country;
-    Let me go with you, he whispered,
-    O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!
-      “Far away, away, I answered,
-    Very far away, I answered,
-    Ah me! is my native country,
-    O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!
-      “When I looked back to behold him,
-    Where we parted, to behold him,
-    After me he still was gazing,
-    O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!
-      “By the tree he still was standing,
-    By the fallen tree was standing,
-    That had dropped into the water,
-    O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!
-      “When I think of my beloved,
-    Ah me! think of my beloved,
-    When my heart is thinking of him,
-    O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!”
-
-    _Indian pastimes, games, dances and specialties
-        should be here introduced. If possible a national
-        Indian dance by a number of Indians. The Harvest
-        Dance, Ghost Dance or a War Dance, with colored
-        lights thrown upon the scene and soft music behind
-        scenes, forming tableaux during dances and before
-        the curtain falls._
-
-
-_CURTAIN._
-
-
-
-
-ACT V.
-
-FAMINE, FEVER AND MINNEHAHA’S DEATH.
-
-
-_Scenery_:
-
-    _Forest and Lake, same as Act IV, but WINTER.
-        Interior of Nokomis’ Tepee. Present, Hiawatha,
-        Nokomis and Minnehaha all of whose appearance
-        indicate starvation and great suffering. Fever and
-        Famine, the ghosts, two tall, slim girls, with
-        white, haggard faces, dressed entirely in black
-        drapery with no lines to break effect._
-
-_Hiawatha: (with great depth of feeling.)_
-
-    O this long and dreary Winter
-    O this cold and cruel Winter!
-    Ever thicker, thicker, thicker
-    Grows the ice on lake and river,
-    Ever deeper, deeper, deeper
-    Falls the snow o’er all the landscape,
-    Falls the covering snow, and drifting
-    Through the forest, round the village,
-      Hardly from his buried wigwam
-    Can the hunter force a passage;
-    With my mittens and my snowshoes
-    Vainly walked I through the forest,
-    Sought for bird or beast and found none,
-    Saw no track of deer or rabbit,
-    In the snow beheld no footprints,
-    In the ghastly, gleaming forest
-    Fell, and could not rise from weakness,
-    Almost perished there from cold and hunger.
-      O the famine and the fever!
-    O the wasting of the famine!
-    O the blasting of the fever!
-    O the wailing of the children!
-    O the anguish of the women!
-      All the earth is sick and famished;
-    Hungry is the air around them,
-    Hungry is the sky above them,
-    And the hungry stars in heaven
-    Like the eyes of wolves glare at them!
-
-    _Minnehaha, (turning to Hiawatha, reaching out her
-        hands and piteously beseeching of him:)_
-
-    Give me food, O Hiawatha,
-    Give us food, for we are starving,
-    Give us food, or we must perish.
-
-_Act, Fever and Famine_:
-
-      Then the curtain of the doorway
-    From without was slowly lifted;
-    And two women entered softly,
-    Passed the doorway uninvited,
-    Without word of salutation,
-    Without sign of recognition,
-    Sat down in the farthest corner,
-    Crouching low among the shadows.
-    Very pale and haggard were they,
-    As they sat there sad and silent,
-    Trembling, cowering with the shadows,
-    Sobbing, weeping, wailing.
-
-_Minnehaha, Softly_:
-
-    They are famished;
-    Let them do what best delights them;
-    Let them eat, for they are famished.
-
-_Hiawatha, musingly to himself_:
-
-    Who are they?
-    What strange guests has Minnehaha?
-
-_Hiawatha, to Fever and Famine_:
-
-    I bid you welcome
-    To my lodge, to my fireside;
-      O guests! why is it
-    That your hearts are so afflicted,
-    That you sob so in the sunlight?
-    Has perchance the old Nokomis,
-    Has my wife, my Minnehaha,
-    Ever wronged or grieved you by unkindness,
-    Ever failed in hospitable duties?
-
-_Fever and Famine_:
-
-    We are ghosts of the departed,
-    Souls of those who once were with you.
-    Hither have we come to try you.
-    These are corpses clad in garments,
-    These are ghosts that come to haunt you,
-    From the kingdom of Ponemah,
-    From the land of the Hereafter!
-    Cries of grief and lamentation
-    Reach us in the Blessed Islands;
-    Cries of anguish from the living,
-    Calling back their friends departed,
-    Sadden us with useless sorrow.
-    Therefore have we come to try you;
-    No one knows us, no one heeds us.
-    We are but a burden to you,
-    And we see that the departed
-    Have no place among the living.
-    Think of this, O Hiawatha!
-    Speak of it to all the people,
-    That henceforward and forever
-    They no more with lamentations
-    Sadden the souls of the departed
-    In the Islands of the Blessed.
-    Do not lay such heavy burdens
-    In the graves of those you bury.
-    Farewell, noble Hiawatha!
-    We have put you to the trial,
-    To the proof have put your patience,
-    By the insult of our presence,
-    By the outrage of our actions.
-    We have found you great and noble,
-    Faint not in the greater trial,
-    Faint not in the hardest struggle.
-
-    _Fever and Famine, with haggard and hollow eyes, turn
-        toward and approach Minnehaha, meanwhile Hiawatha,
-        Nokomis and Minnehaha trying to ward them off._
-
-_Famine_,
-
-    Behold me!
-    I am Famine, Bukadawin!
-
-_Fever_,
-
-    Behold me!
-    I am Fever, Ahkosewin!
-
-_Act, Minnehaha_:
-
-      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.
-
-_Act, Hiawatha, first preparing for journey_,
-
-      Wrapped in furs and armed for hunting,
-    With his mighty bow of ash-tree,
-    With his quiver full of arrows,
-    With his mittens, Minjekahwun,
-      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.
-    Into the vast and vacant forest
-    On his snowshoes strode he forward.
-
-    _Scene shifts, showing Hiawatha in a dense forest,
-        with trees covered with snow and ice, hunting food
-        for Minnehaha, becoming discouraged, he sits down
-        on a log or rock, ponders and talks to himself._
-
-_Hiawatha, despondently, ruminating_,
-
-    Lo! how all things fade and perish!
-    From the memory of the old men
-    Pass away the great traditions,
-      On the grave-posts of our fathers
-    Are no signs, no figures painted;
-    Who are in those graves we know not,
-    Only know they are our fathers,
-    Of what kith they are and kindred,
-    From what old, ancestral Totem,
-    Be it Eagle, Bear or Beaver,
-    They descended, this we know not,
-    Only know they are our fathers.
-      Face to face we speak together,
-    But we cannot speak when absent,
-    Cannot send our voices from us
-    To the friends that dwell afar off;
-    Cannot send a secret message,
-    But the bearer learns our secret,
-    May pervert it, may betray it,
-    May reveal it unto others.
-      ’Twas through this forest, dark and gloomy,
-    In the balmy days of summer
-    That I brought my bride, Laughing Water,
-    From the land of the Dakotahs,
-    Through this forest, bleak and frozen,
-    Brought my moonlight, starlight, firelight,
-    Brought the sunshine of my people,
-    Minnehaha, Laughing Water,
-    Handsomest of all the women
-    In the land of the Dacotahs,
-    In the land of handsome women.
-    When she followed me, her husband.
-
-    _Buries his head in his hands, then rising,
-        stretching his hands toward Heaven with head
-        uplifted cries aloud with great feeling._
-
-      “Gitche Manitou, the Mighty!”
-    In this 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!
-
-_Act, Hiawatha_:
-
-      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.
-
-_Echo._
-
-Minnehaha! Minnehaha! Ha! Ha!
-
-    _Hiawatha disappears in the forest looking for game._
-
-    _Scene changes showing the interior of the tepee
-        where Minnehaha lies sick and dying. Fever sitting
-        at her head, Famine at her feet, both staring at
-        her. Old Nokomis sitting at the back of the couch,
-        watching over and caring for her with maternal love
-        and pity._
-
-_Minnehaha, feebly_,
-
-_To Fever and Famine_.
-
-    To-morrow
-    Is the last day of my conflict,
-    Is the last day of my fasting.
-    You will conquer and o’ercome me;
-
-_Turning to Nokomis, pathetically_:
-
-    Dear old Nokomis,
-    Make a bed for me to lie in,
-    Where the rain may fall upon me,
-    Where the sun may come and warm me;
-    Lay me in the earth, and make it
-    Soft and loose and light above me.
-
-      Let no hand disturb my slumber,
-    Only come yourself to watch me,
-    Till I wake, and start, and quicken,
-    Till I leap into the sunshine.
-
-_After a silence._
-
-    Ah me! think of my beloved,
-    In the bleak and frozen forest
-    My heart is thinking of him.
-
-_Another silence._
-
-      Far away, away,
-    Very far away,
-    Ah me! is my native country.
-
-_Half raising herself and speaking wildly_:
-
-      Hark! I hear a rushing,
-    Hear a roaring and a rushing,
-    Hear the Falls of Minnehaha
-    Calling to me from a distance!
-
-_Nokomis, soothingly_:
-
-    No, no, my child!
-    ’Tis only the night-wind in the pine-trees!
-
-_Minnehaha, deliriously, pointing_:
-
-      Look! I see my father
-    Standing lonely at his doorway,
-    Beckoning to me from his wigwam
-    In the land of the Dakotahs!
-
-_Nokomis_:
-
-No, no, my child!
-
-’Tis only the smoke, that waves and beckons!
-
-_Minnehaha, wildly, raving_:
-
-      Ah! The eyes of Pauguk
-    Glare upon me in the darkness,
-    I can feel his icy fingers
-    Clasping mine amid the darkness!
-    Hiawatha! Hiawatha!
-
-    _Shrieking loudly and falls back dead._
-
-    _Fever and Famine at Minnehaha’s death, glide out,
-        Nokomis changes position taking a seat at her feet,
-        then rocking back and forth wails and moans._
-
-
-_Nokomis_:
-
-      Wahonowin! Wahonowin!
-    Would that I had perished for you,
-    Would that I were dead as you are!
-    Wahonowin! Wahonowin!
-      Ah! why do the living,
-    Lay such heavy burdens on us!
-    Better were it to go naked,
-    Better were it to go fasting,
-    Than to bear such heavy burdens
-    On our long and weary journey!
-    O that I were dead!
-    O that I were dead, as thou art?
-    No more work, and no more weeping,
-    Wahonowin! Wahonowin!
-
-    _During this scene a low, soft dirge should be played
-        behind the scenes. Indians are to be seen peeping
-        from behind trees and rocks, some after the death
-        coming to look into the wigwam._
-
-    _Indian chiefs, wailing and shaking their
-        medicine-pouches over the head of Minnehaha._
-
-      Hi-au-ha!
-    Way-ha-way!
-    She has gone
-    To the land of ghosts and shadows.
-    Hi-au-ha!
-    Way-ha-way!
-
-_Act, Hiawatha_:
-
-    Hiawatha 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.
-
-_Hiawatha, astounded, shocked, then mournfully._
-
-    Dead out of the empty heaven,
-    Dead among the starving people,
-
-_Calling to Heaven, despairingly_:
-
-    Master of Life!
-    Must our lives depend on these things?
-
-_Moans, cries, then softly murmurs._
-
-    Ah, showain nemeshin, Nosa!
-    Pity, pity me, my father!
-
-_Pathetically beseeching Minnehaha_:
-
-    O! my Minnehaha; O, my Laughing Water,
-    Do not leave me thus;
-    You were my moonlight, starlight, firelight
-    You were the sunshine of my life,
-
-_Whispering to her in her slumbers_:
-
-    Though you are far from me
-    In the land of Sleep and Silence,
-    Still the voice of love should reach you!
-
-_Nokomis, sorrowfully, resignedly_:
-
-      She is dead, the Laughing Water!
-    She the dearest of all creatures!
-    She has gone from us forever,
-    She has moved a little nearer
-    To the Master of all life,
-    To the Master of all sunshine!
-    She has gone
-    To the regions of the home-wind,
-    Of the Northwest wind Keewaydin,
-    To the Islands of the Blessed,
-    To the kingdom of Ponemah,
-    To the land of the Hereafter!
-
-    _Hiawatha, sitting down, looking lovingly and
-        mournfully at her meditates_,
-
-    Oh! those willing feet, that never
-    More will lightly run to meet me,
-    Never more will lightly follow.
-
-_Act, Hiawatha_:
-
-      Then he sat down, still and speechless
-    On the bed of Minnehaha
-    At the head of Laughing Water,
-    As if in a swoon he sat there,
-    Speechless, motionless, unconscious.
-
-    _After awhile, rising, he goes back of the couch,
-        thus standing, looks down upon her, saying with
-        sorrow and deep pathos_,
-
-      Farewell! 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!
-
-    _A reproduction of an Indian death scene and an
-        Indian funeral could here be given. Soft music
-        behind scenes. Colored lights should be thrown upon
-        the scene making a very effective tableau, showing
-        interior of the tepee with Indians seen scattered
-        here and there outside in the wintry forest._
-
-                         _CURTAIN._
-
-
-
-
-ACT VI.
-
-HIAWATHA’S DEPARTURE.
-
-
-_Scenery_:
-
-    _Shore of the lake with a forest on its margin. A
-        peaceful quiet summer scene. In the distance Indian
-        tents, and nearer the tepee of Nokomis. Indians
-        scattered here and there, some making a birch bark
-        canoe in true Ojibway fashion, others shooting
-        at target and indulging in Indian pastimes.
-        Hiawatha standing on the lake shore. Here can be
-        given a transformation and spectacular scene and
-        tableaux, showing Minnehaha in the distance as an
-        angel and hovering o’er them. Or, the following
-        spectacular_—Suddenly in the distance soft
-        low sweet music is heard (by stringed instruments
-        behind the scenes), and across the lake through a
-        rift in the sky is seen a bright heavenly light,
-        growing brighter and brighter, then an object is
-        seen growing more and more distinct as the music
-        grows louder, the object draws nearer and the light
-        brighter, and as the object comes into view it is
-        discovered to be a birch bark canoe gliding toward
-        them. In the canoe is Minnehaha dressed as an angel
-        and using paddle. The soft sweet music grows nearer
-        and louder, and the halo of light surrounding her
-        brighter as the canoe approaches. The Indians stop
-        their various pursuits and stand in attitudes of
-        astonishment watching the canoe approach. Hiawatha,
-        stepping forward to the margin of the lake when
-        Minnehaha is first seen, stands shading his eyes,
-        expectantly watching and waiting. Nokomis also
-        comes forth from her tepee. Minnehaha beckons
-        to Hiawatha. As she approaches them Hiawatha
-        recognizing her, steps forward, close to the waters
-        edge, and with hands extended and a smile of joy
-        and triumph, and a look of exultation waits. As
-        the boat stops close to shore and Minnehaha again
-        beckons to him, he apparently hesitates between her
-        and leaving his people, then again turns to her,
-        with exultation, hope, joy and deep feeling.
-
-
-_Hiawatha_:
-
-    Oh, my angel, Minnehaha,
-    Long have I been waiting for you!
-    Youth is lovely, age is lonely,
-    Youth is fiery, age is frosty;
-    You bring back the days departed,
-    You bring back my youth of passion,
-    O my beautiful Laughing Water
-    My lovely wife, my Minnehaha.
-
-    _Hiawatha turns first to Nokomis and then to his
-        people, as though loth to leave them. Then, again
-        looking at Minnehaha, who motions to him smilingly_:
-
-_Act, Minnehaha_:
-
-    O’er the water, flying,
-    Through the shining mist of morning,
-    Comes a birch canoe with paddles,
-    Rising, sinking on the water,
-    Dripping, flashing in the sunshine;
-      O’er the water floating, flying,
-    Something in the hazy distance,
-    Something in the mists of morning,
-    Loomed and lifted from the water,
-    Now seemed floating, now seemed flying,
-    Coming nearer, nearer, nearer.
-
-_Act, Hiawatha_:
-
-    From the brow of Hiawatha
-    Gone was every trace of sorrow.
-    As the fog from off the water,
-    As the mist from off the meadow.
-    With a smile of joy and triumph,
-    With a look of exultation,
-    As of one who in a vision
-    Sees what is to be, but is not,
-    Stood and waited Hiawatha.
-      And the noble Hiawatha,
-    With his hands aloft extended,
-    Held aloft in sign of welcome,
-    Waited, full of exultation.
-
-_Hiawatha, to Nokomis, tenderly_:
-
-      I am going, O Nokomis,
-    On a long and distant journey,
-    To the portals of the Sunset,
-    To the regions of the home-wind,
-    Of the Northwest wind, Keewaydin.
-
-_Motioning to his people._
-
-    In your watch and ward I leave them,
-    See that never harm comes near them,
-    See that never fear molests them,
-    Never danger nor suspicion,
-    Never want of food nor shelter,
-    In the lodge of Hiawatha.
-
-_Nokomis, sobbing._
-
-    Farewell, O Hiawatha!
-    Farewell, my child, my noble Hiawatha.
-
-_Hiawatha, turning to Indians_:
-
-    Gitche Manitou, the Mighty,
-    Showed me in my vision,
-    All the secrets of the future,
-    Of the distant days that shall be.
-    I beheld the westward marches
-    Of the unknown crowded nations.
-    All the land was full of people,
-    Restless, struggling, toiling, striving,
-    Speaking many tongues, yet feeling
-    But one heart-beat in their bosoms.
-    In our woodlands rang their axes,
-    Smoked their towns in all our valleys,
-    Over all the lakes and rivers
-    Rushed their great canoes of thunder.
-      Then a darker, drearier vision
-    Passed before me, vague and cloud-like:
-    I beheld our nation scattered,
-    All forgetful of my counsels.
-    There are great men, I have known such,
-    Whom their own people understand not,
-    Whom they even make a jest of.
-
-_Stepping into canoe and drifting away._
-
-      I am going, O my people,
-    On a long and distant journey;
-    Many moons and many winters
-    Will have come and will have vanished,
-    Ere again I meet you.
-
-_Indian Chiefs_:
-
-      We have listened to your message,
-    We have heard your words of wisdom,
-    We will think on what you tell us.
-      Farewell, O Hiawatha!
-
-_All Indians, sorrowfully, watching and waving adieu._
-
-    Farewell, Hiawatha, the beloved!
-    Farewell, forever! Farewell, O Hiawatha.
-
-_Canoe is seen disappearing in the distance._
-
-    _CURTAIN._
-
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-
-<h1>A DRAMATIZATION OF<br />LONGFELLOW’S<br /><br /><big>HIAWATHA</big>.</h1>
-
-<p class="f150">A Spectacular Drama in Six Acts.</p>
-
-<p class="center space-above2">Delineating the Characteristics and Customs<br />
-OF<br /><span class="fontsize_120">THE NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center space-above2"><i>Re-written, Revised, Arranged and Dramatized<br />
-By A. L. DE VINE.</i></p>
-
-<p class="center space-above2"><i>Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1895<br />
-By A. L. DE VINE.<br />In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.</i></p>
-
-<p class="center space-above1">ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.</p>
-
-<p class="center space-above1"><i>Copyrighted in Great Britain and British Possessions,<br />
-France, Germany, Italy,<br />Belgium, Denmark, Portugal and Switzerland.</i></p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak">INTRODUCTORY.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">To ye whose hearts are fresh and simple</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who have faith in God and Nature,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who believe that in all ages</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Every human heart is human,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That in even savage bosoms</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">There are longings, yearnings, strivings</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For the good they comprehend not,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the feeble hands and helpless,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Groping blindly in the darkness,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Touch God’s right hand in that darkness</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And are lifted up and strengthened,</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="blockquot">
-<p class="drop-cap"><span class="smcap"><b>Is submitted</b></span> this
-portrayal of the primitive life of the American Indians in their native
-forest home. Fully realizing how rapidly the race is becoming extinct
-before the onward march of civilizing influences, and how little the
-people of this and other countries really know of such customs, dress,
-and peculiarities, it is believed this spectacular drama will be
-found historical, an educator to the young and interesting to
-<span class="smcap">all</span>. In thus depicting the higher and better
-life of the Indian race, their mode of living, dress, pastimes, feats of
-skill, dances, wooings, wedding feasts, festivities, death scenes and
-legends, the author has adhered to the original language of the poem as
-closely as is consistent with a faithful dramatization thereof.</p>
-
-<p>This is the first and only known drama of this kind or character in
-existence, and no other subject, throughout the wide and varied field
-of poetry, offers like opportunities to the facile pen of the skilled
-playwright.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak">SYNOPSIS OF SCENES<br /> AND INCIDENTS.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="blockquot">
-<p class="neg-indent2">ACT I. <span class="smcap">The Peace Pipe.</span>
-Gitche Manitou (Great Spirit) descends from Heaven and admonishes the
-tribes to cease warfare and bloodshed—Indians discard weapons and war
-paint—Gitche Manitou promises to send Hiawatha as a guide—Fashions a
-Peace Pipe—Sets fire to the forest and vanishes in smoke.</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent2">ACT II. <span class="smcap">Hiawatha’s Childhood.</span>
-Tribe of Ojibways—Hiawatha a babe in Indian cradle—Nokomis swinging
-cradle—Indian lullaby.</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent2">ACT III. <span class="smcap">Hiawatha’s Wooing.</span>
-Scene 1—Hiawatha grown to manhood—Desires to wed Minnehaha, a
-Dakotah maiden—Discussion—Departs on journey—Nokomis sorrowing.
-Scene 2—Hiawatha in forest—Shoots a deer—Shoulders it. Scene
-3—Tribe of Dakotahs—Minnehaha Falls—Wigwam of Arrow-maker—Hiawatha’s
-arrival and welcome—Wooing of Minnehaha—Departure of Hiawatha and
-Minnehaha—Climbing of Falls—Arrow-maker’s despondency—Tableaux.</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent2">ACT IV. <span class="smcap">Wedding Feast.</span>
-Forest—Ojibway village—Arrival of Hiawatha and
-Minnehaha—Welcome—Festivities—Feasts, songs, feats of skill, games,
-dancing and specialties—Tableaux.</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent2">ACT V. <span class="smcap">Fever, Famine and Minnehaha’s Death.</span>
-Winter—Tepee of Nokomis—Starvation—Minnehaha begs for food—Enter
-Famine and Fever—Hiawatha hunting food—Disheartened—Appeal to Great
-Spirit—Minnehaha’s sufferings and death—Lamentations—Hiawatha’s
-return—Grief—Indian funeral—Tableaux.</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent2">ACT VI. <span class="smcap">Hiawatha’s Departure.</span>
-Summer—Indian village—Canoe approaches from distance containing
-Minnehaha as angel—Music—Colored lights—Indians’ astonishment—Hiawatha
-awaits her coming—Joins her—Hiawatha’s farewell—Canoe
-disappears—Tableaux.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p>
-<p class="f300"><b>“HIAWATHA”</b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="r10" />
-<p class="f150"><b>DRAMATIS PERSONÆ</b>.</p>
-
-<ul class="index fontsize_120 no-wrap">
-<li class="isub1">Gitche Manito; the Indian Great Spirit and Father of all Nations.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Hiawatha; the Prophet of Peace, of the tribe of Ojibways,
-sent to guide the Indian nations.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Ancient Arrow-maker; Minnehaha’s Father.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Chibiabos; the Singer.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Pau-Puk-Keewis; the Dancer.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Bukadawin; Famine.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Ahkosewin; Fever.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Minnehaha; Hiawatha’s Bride, a Dakotah Maiden.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Old Nokomis; Hiawatha’s Grand-mother.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Miscellaneous Indian Braves.</li>
-<li class="isub1">Miscellaneous Indian Women.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<p class="f150"><b>SYNOPSIS</b>.</p>
-
-<table class="no-wrap" border="0" cellspacing="2" summary=" " cellpadding="2" >
-  <tbody><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">Act 1st.</td>
-      <td class="tdc">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdc">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdl_ws1">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdr_ws1">The Peace Pipe.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">Act 2nd.</td>
-      <td class="tdc">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdc">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdl_ws1">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdr_ws1">Hiawatha’s Childhood.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl" rowspan="4">Act 3rd.</td>
-      <td class="tdc" rowspan="4">Hiawatha’s<br />Wooing.</td>
-      <td class="tdc" rowspan="4"><img  src="images/cbr-4.jpg" alt="" width="23" height="82" /></td>
-      <td class="tdl_ws1">Scene 1st.</td>
-      <td class="tdr_ws1">Hiawatha’s Discussion</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl_ws1">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdr_ws1">with Nokomis and Departure.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl_ws1">Scene 2nd.</td>
-      <td class="tdr_ws1">Hiawatha’s Journey.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl_ws1">Scene 3rd.</td>
-      <td class="tdr_ws1">Wooing of Minnehaha.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdl_ws1">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><img  src="images/cbl-2.jpg" alt="" width="9" height="32" /></td>
-      <td class="tdl">Home of Arrow-maker.<br />View of Minnehaha Falls.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">Act 4th.</td>
-      <td class="tdc">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdc">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdl_ws1">&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdr_ws1">Wedding Feast.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">Act 5th.</td>
-      <td class="tdr_ws1" colspan="4">Fever and Famine and Minnehaha’s Death.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">Act 6th.</td>
-      <td class="tdr_ws1" colspan="4">Hiawatha’s Reunion with Minnehaha and Departure.</td>
-   </tr>
- </tbody>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">ACT I.<br />THE PEACE PIPE.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Description as nearly as possible to follow
-description according to the poem. In background, high mountains. In
-foreground, lower hills, with forest trees and Indian tents in the
-distance: GITCHE MANITO; The great Spirit and FATHER of all NATIONS
-descends from the clouds encircled in a flood of bright lights of
-various colors; strains of soft sweet Music, as from a distance,
-accompanying his descent as though from Heaven to Earth or to the top
-of the mountain. The Indian representatives from all Nations in their
-peculiar distinct dress of the several different tribes, grouped here
-and there among the trees and rocks are attracted by the smoke signal
-and are then seen coming from all directions in full Indian war paint
-and costume; when signaled to by GITCHE MANITO, the Great Spirit, as
-per the following poem</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act and Description of Gitche Manito</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">On the Mountains of the Prairie,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manito, the Mighty,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He the Master of Life DESCENDING,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On the red craigs of the quarry</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Stood erect, and called the Nations,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Called the tribes of men together.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From his footprints flowed a river,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Leaped into the light of morning,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O’er the precipice plunging downward</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Gleamed like Ishkoodah, the comet.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the Spirit, stooping earthward,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his finger on the meadow</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Traced a winding pathway for it,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Saying to it,</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Gitche Manito</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Run in this way!</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">From the red stone of the quarry</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his hand he broke a fragment,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Moulded it into a pipe-head,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Shaped and fashioned it with figures;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the margin of the river</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Took a long reed for a pipe-stem,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With its dark green leaves upon it;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Filled the pipe with bark of willow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With the bark of the red willow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Breathed upon the neighboring forest,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Made its great bows chafe together,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Till in flame they burst and kindled;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And erect upon the mountains</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manito, the Mighty,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Smoked the calumet, the Peace Pipe,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As a signal to the nations,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And the smoke rose slowly, slowly,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Through the tranquil air of morning,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">First a single line of darkness,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">From the vale of Tawasenthena,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the Valley of Wyoming</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the groves of Tuscaloosa,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the far-off Rocky Mountains,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the Northern lakes and rivers.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Indians</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">All the tribes beheld the signal,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Saw the distant smoke ascending,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Pukwana of the Peace Pipe.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Indian Warriors</i> (<i>to each other, pointing</i>):</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Behold it, the Pukwana!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">By this signal from afar off,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bending like a wand of willow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Waving like a hand that beckons,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manito, the Mighty,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Calls the tribes of men together,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Calls the warriors to his council!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act of Indian Tribes</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Down the rivers o’er the prairies,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Came the warriors of the nations,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All the warriors drawn together</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">By the signal of the Peace Pipe</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the Mountains of the Prairie,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And they stood there on the meadow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With their weapons and their war-gear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Painted like the leaves of Autumn,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Painted like the sky of morning,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wildly glaring at each other;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In their faces stern defiance,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In their hearts the feuds of ages,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The hereditary hatred</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The ancestral thirst of vengeance.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Gitche Manito</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Gitche Manito, the mighty,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Creator of the nations,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Looked upon them with compassion,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With paternal love and pity;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Over them he stretched his right hand.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Gitche Manito</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">O my children; my poor children!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Listen to the words of wisdom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Listen to the words of warning!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the lips of the Great Spirit,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the Master of life, who made you!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">I have given you lands to hunt in,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I have given you streams to fish in,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I have given you bear and bison,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I have given you roe and reindeer,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I have given you brant and beaver,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Filled the marshes full of wild fowl,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Filled the rivers full of fishes;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Why then are you not contented?</div>
-                                      <span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Why then will you hunt each other?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">I am weary of your quarrels,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Weary of your wars and bloodshed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Weary of your prayers for vengeance,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All your strength is in your union,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All your danger is in discord;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Therefore be at peace henceforward,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And as brothers live together.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“I will send a Prophet to you,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha will I send to you</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A deliverer of the nations,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who shall guide you and shall teach you</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who shall toil and suffer with you.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">If you listen to his counsels,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You will multiply and prosper;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">If his warnings pass unheeded</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You will fade away and perish!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Bathe now in the stream before you</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wash the war-paint from your faces,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wash the blood stains from your fingers,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bury your war clubs and your weapons,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Break the red stone from this quarry,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Mould and make it into Peace Pipes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Take the reeds that grow beside you,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Deck them with your brightest feathers,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Smoke the calumet together,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And as brothers live henceforward!”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Indians</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then upon the ground the warriors</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Threw their cloaks and shirts of deer-skin,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Threw their weapons and their war-gear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Leaped into the rushing river,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Washed the war-paint from their faces.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Clear above them flowed the water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Clear and limpèd from the footprints</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of the Master of Life descending;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dark below them flowed the water,</div>
-                                       <span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Soiled and stained with streaks of crimson,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As if blood were mingled with it.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">From the river came the warriors.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Cleaned and washed from all their war-paint,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On the banks their clubs they buried,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Buried all their warlike weapons.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Gitche Manito</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manito, the Mighty,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Great Spirit, the Creator,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Smiled upon his helpless children.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Indians</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">And in silence all the warriors</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Broke the red stone of the quarry,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Smoothed and formed it into Peace Pipes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Broke the long reeds by the river.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Decked them with their brightest feathers.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>A beautiful transformation. Scene and tableaux can
-be given here with the groups of Indians, Bright
-colored lights, soft Heavenly music, and GITCHE
-MANITO ASCENDING again to Heaven in a CLOUD of
-SMOKE.</i></p>
-
-<p class="big-indent">(<i>See following description.</i>)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">While the Master of Life, <span class="smcap">ascending</span></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Through the opening of cloud-curtains,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Through the doorways of the <span class="smcap">heaven</span></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Vanished from before their faces,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0 space-below2">In the smoke that rolled around him.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter">
-<img  src="images/deco.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="48" />
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak">ACT II.<br />HIAWATHA’S CHILDHOOD.</h2>
-</div>
-<hr class="r10" />
-
-<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>A short scene or acting tableaux, can be given
-here, the scenery to follow the description in the poem, HIAWATHA, a
-baby, in an Indian cradle swung between the trees which is being rocked
-by old NOKOMIS (his grandmother) while she is singing the Lullaby song,
-Little Owlet.</i> (<i>See following description.</i>)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">By the shining Big-Sea-Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Stood the wigwam of Nokomis.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dark behind it rose the forest,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rose the firs with cones upon them;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bright before it beat the water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beat the clear and sunny water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">There the wrinkled, old Nokomis</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Nursed the little Hiawatha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rocked him in his linden cradle,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bedded soft in moss and rushes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Safely bound with reindeer sinews;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Stilled his fretful wail by saying,</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Hush! the Naked Bear will hear thee!</p>
-
-<p class="big-indent">Lulled him into slumber singing,
-<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis Song</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ewa-yea! my little owlet!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who is this, that lights the wigwam?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his great eyes lights the wigwam?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ewa-yea! my little owlet!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wah-wah-taysee, little fire-fly,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Little, flitting, white-fire insect,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Little, dancing, white-fire creature,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Light us with your little candle,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ere upon your bed I lay you</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0 space-below2">Ere in sleep you close your eyelids!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter">
-<img  src="images/deco.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="48" />
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">ACT III.<br />HIAWATHA’S WOOING,<br />TRIBE OF OJIBWAYS.</h2>
-</div>
-<hr class="r10" />
-
-<h3>Scene First.<br /> Hiawatha’s Discussion with Nokomis and Departure.</h3>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Same as Act II. This is supposed to be the TRIBE
-and land of THE OJIBWAYS. Showing the INTERIOR of the TEPEE of Old
-NOKOMIS. HIAWATHA; (tall, straight, of majestic figure, commanding
-aspect, dashing and handsome,) is seen shaping an arrow to fit a bow.
-NOKOMIS; a majestic Indian woman as befits HIAWATHA’S grandmother, sits
-making a robe of deer skin or work of like kind. HIAWATHA sits working,
-thinking, pondering.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description of Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Out of childhood into manhood</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Now had grown my Hiawatha.</div>
-                                <span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Skilled in all the craft of hunters,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Learned in all the lore of old men,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In all youthful sports and pastimes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In manly arts and labors.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Swift of foot was Hiawatha;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He could shoot an arrow from him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And run forward with such fleetness,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the arrow fell behind him!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Strong of arm was Hiawatha;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He could shoot ten arrows upward,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Shoot them with such strength and swiftness,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the tenth had left the bow-string</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ere the first to earth had fallen!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He had mittens, Minjekahwun,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Magic mittens made of deer-skin;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When upon his hands he wore them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He could smite the rocks asunder</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He could grind them into powder.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He had moccasins enchanted,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Magic moccasins of deer-skin:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When he bound them round his ankles,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When upon his feet he tied them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At each stride a mile he measured!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>; (<i>speaking meditatively</i>):</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">As unto the bow the cord is,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">So unto the man is woman,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Though she bends him, she obeys him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Though she draws him, yet she follows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Useless each without the other!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>; (<i>in a warning and dissuading voice</i>):</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Wed a maiden of your people,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Go not eastward, go not westward,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For a stranger, whom we know not!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Like a fire upon the hearth-stone</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Is a neighbor’s homely daughter,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Like the starlight or the moonlight</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Is the handsomest of strangers!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>; (<i>persuadingly</i>):</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Dear old Nokomis,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Very pleasant is the firelight.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But I like the starlight better,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Better do I like the moonlight!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>; (<i>gravely</i>):</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Bring not here an idle maiden,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bring not here a useless woman,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hands unskillful, feet unwilling;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bring a wife with nimble fingers,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Heart and hand that move together,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Feet that run on willing errands!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>, (<i>Smiling</i>):</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">In the land of the Dacotahs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Lives the Arrow-maker’s daughter,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Minnehaha, Laughing water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Handsomest of all the women.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I will bring her to your wigwam,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She shall run upon your errands,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Be your starlight, moonlight, firelight,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Be the sunlight of my people!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>, (<i>still dissuading</i>):</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Bring not to my lodge a stranger</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the land of the Dacotahs!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Very fierce are the Dacotahs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Often is there war between us.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">There are feuds yet unforgotten,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wounds that ache and still may open!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>, (<i>laughing</i>):</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">For that reason, if no other,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Would I wed the fair Dacotah,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That our tribes might be united,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That old feuds might be forgotten,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And old wounds be healed forever!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>During this conversation HIAWATHA stops his
-work and prepares for his journey, OLD NOKOMIS becoming more and more
-earnest and entreating as his preparations proceed: when he goes, she
-follows and tries to detain him, then watches him out of sight, and the
-curtain falls while she stands alone, weeping, despondent and sorrowing
-at the door of her wigwam.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description of Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dressed for travel, armed for hunting;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dressed in deer-skin shirt and leggings,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Richly wrought with quills and wampum;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On his head his eagle-feathers.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Round his waist his belt of wampum,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In his hand his bow of ash-wood,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Strung with sinews of the reindeer;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In his quiver oaken arrows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Tipped with jasper, winged with feathers;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his mittens, Minjekahwun,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his moccasins enchanted.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thus departed Hiawatha</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the land of the Dacotahs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the land of handsome women;</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Nokomis</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Homeward weeping went Nokomis</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sorrowing for her Hiawatha.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r10" />
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p>
-
-<p class="f150"><b>ACT III.</b></p>
-
-<h3>Scene Second.<br /> Hiawatha’s Journey.</h3>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery:</i></p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>A short scene can be given here, showing a deep
-forest, also giving a view of Hiawatha upon his
-journey and with his bow and arrow, shooting the
-deer which he takes MINNEHAHA as a gift, and lays
-at her feet on his arrival.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Through the forest deep and lonely,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then he journeyed without resting,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Till he heard the cataract’s laughter,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Heard the Falls of Minnehaha</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Calling to him through the silence.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Standing, Listening, he murmured,</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza fontsize_120">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Pleasant is the sound!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Pleasant is the voice that calls me!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent4">On the outskirts of the forest,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Twixt the shadow and the sunshine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Herds of fallow deer were feeding.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But they saw not Hiawatha;</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha (whispering to his bow)</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Fail not!</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha (whispering to his arrow)</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Swerve not!</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sent it singing on its errand,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the red heart of the roebuck;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Threw the deer across his shoulder,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And sped forward without pausing.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<hr class="r10" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span></p>
-<p class="f150"><b>ACT III.</b></p>
-
-<p class="center"><b>“TRIBE OF THE DACOTAHS,”</b></p>
-<p class="center"><b>HOME OF THE ARROW-MAKER</b>.</p>
-
-<h3>Scene Third.<br /> Wooing of Minnehaha.</h3>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>As perfect an imitation as possible of the
-Scenery of and about MINNEHAHA FALLS. With the FALLS, also Very High
-Rocks in the background. In the foreground, at the base of Minnehaha
-Falls, a wigwam, representing the appearance and interior of a wigwam
-of the DACOTAH TRIBE. MINNEHAHA to be tall, straight, dashing and
-handsome. (See the following Description.)</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">In the land of the Dacotahs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Where the Falls of Minnehaha</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Flash and gleam among the oak-trees,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Laugh and leap into the valley.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Very spacious was the wigwam,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Made of deer-skin dressed and whitened,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With the Gods of the Dacotahs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Drawn and painted on its curtains,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And so tall the doorway, hardly</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha stooped to enter,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hardly touched his eagle-feathers</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As he entered at the doorway.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Arrow-maker</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">At the doorway of his wigwam</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sat the ancient Arrow-maker,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the land of the Dacotahs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Making arrow-heads of jasper,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Arrow-heads of chalcedony.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description of Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">At his side in all her beauty,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sat the lovely Minnehaha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sat his daughter, Laughing water</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Plaiting mats of flags and rushes;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Feet as rapid as the river,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Tresses flowing like the water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And as musical a laughter;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And he named her from the river,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the water-fall he named her,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Minnehaha, Laughing Water</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">She was thinking of a hunter,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From another tribe and country,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Young and tall and very handsome.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On the mat her hands lay idle,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And her eyes were very dreamy.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Through her thoughts she heard a footstep,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Heard a rustling in the branches,</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">And with glowing cheek and forehead,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With the deer upon his shoulders,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Suddenly from out the woodlands</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha stood before them.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Arrow-maker</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Straight the ancient Arrow-maker</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Looked up gravely from his labor,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Laid aside the unfinished arrow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bade him enter at the doorway,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Saying, as he rose to meet him,</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Hiawatha, you are welcome!</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">At the feet of Laughing Water</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha laid his burden,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Threw the red deer from his shoulders;</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the maiden looked up at him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Looked up from her mat of rushes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Said with gentle look and accent.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">You are welcome, Hiawatha!</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then uprose the Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the ground fair Minnehaha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Laid aside her mat unfinished,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Brought forth food and set before them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Water brought them from the brooklet,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Gave them food in earthen vessels,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Gave them drink in bowls of bass-wood.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>The following conversation to be carried on
-between the ARROW-MAKER and HIAWATHA while MINNEHAHA brings the food
-etc., and sets before them.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, (with much expression)</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent3">“You know of my wondrous birth and being,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">How I prayed and how I fasted,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">How I lived, and toiled, and suffered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">That the tribes of men might prosper,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">That I might advance my people!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Dear Old Nokomis who has nursed me in my childhood
-            needs a daughter now to help her.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To the lodge of old Nokomis</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">I would bring the moonlight, starlight, firelight,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Bring the sunshine to my people,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Give me Minnehaha, Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Handsomest of all the women</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">In the land of the Dacotahs,</div>
-
-    <div class="verse indent4">In the land of handsome women.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">There is happiness and plenty</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">In the land of the Ojibways,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">In the pleasant land and peaceful.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">See the face of Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Peeping from behind the curtain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hear the rustling of her garments</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From behind the waving curtain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Listened while the guest was speaking,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Listened while her father answered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But not once her lips she opened,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Not a single word she uttered.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Yes, as in a dream she listened</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the words of Hiawatha.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, (with deep feeling)</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">After many years of warfare,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Many years of strife and bloodshed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">There is peace between the Ojibways</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the tribe of the Dacotahs.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha; In his earnestness rising, speaking
-slowly, with Great Expression, and turning toward Minnehaha.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent3">“That this peace may last forever,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And our hands be clasped more closely,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And our hearts be more united,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Give me as my wife this maiden,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Minnehaha, Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Loveliest of Dacotah women!”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Reseats himself, looking expectantly and earnestly
-at the Arrow-maker for his reply.</i></p>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Arrow-maker</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">And the ancient Arrow-maker</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Paused a moment ere he answered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Smoked a little while in silence,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Looked at Hiawatha proudly,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Fondly looked at Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then made answer very gravely:</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker (with deep feeling)</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yes, if Minnehaha wishes;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Let your heart speak, Minnehaha.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the lovely Laughing Water</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Seemed more lovely, as she stood there,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Neither willing nor reluctant.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Turns FIRST to ONE and THEN to the OTHER,
-hesitates at thought of leaving her father, goes to him, then turning,
-looking at Hiawatha, hesitates.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then, she went to Hiawatha</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Softly took the seat beside him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">While she said, and blushed to say it.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">I will follow you my husband!</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Rising, going over and speaking to Hiawatha.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">You have wooed and won my maiden,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With your stories of the North-land!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Happy are you, Hiawatha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Having such a wife to love you!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker; turning, speaking to his daughter</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent4">Happy are you, Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Having such a noble husband!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker, (to both)</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent6">O my children,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Life is checkered shade and sunshine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Rule by love, O Hiawatha!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent3">“O my children,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Day is restless, night is quiet,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Man imperious, women feeble;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Half is hers although she follows</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Rule by patience, Laughing Water!”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha and Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">From the wigwam he departed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Leading with him Laughing Water;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hand in hand they went together,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Left the old man standing lonely</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At the doorway of his wigwam.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker, very sorrowfully</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Fare thee well, O Minnehaha!</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Arrow-maker</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the ancient Arrow-maker</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Turned again unto his labor,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sat down by his sunny doorway,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Murmuring to himself, and saying:</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker, (meditatively and with much expression)</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent3">“Thus it is our daughters leave us</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Those we love, and those who love us!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Just when they have learned to help us,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Just when we are old and lean upon them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Comes a youth with flaunting feathers,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">With his flute of reeds, a stranger</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Wanders piping through the village,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Beckons to the fairest maiden,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And she follows where he leads her,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Leaving father, mother, home, friends,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Leaving ALL things, for the Stranger.”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha and Minnehaha are to be seen (while
-Arrow-maker is thus sitting at the doorway and meditating); first
-winding in and out among the trees, then climbing the rocks, coming
-into view, then disappearing behind rocks; then again being seen
-wending their way higher and higher upon the rocks, and when the SUMMIT
-of the MINNEHAHA FALLS is reached, they are seen, Hiawatha, with his
-arm around Minnehaha, pointing to the wigwam in the valley below. The
-Old Arrow-maker sees them at the same time, rises, (shading his eyes
-with his hand) and looks upward at them. HOME SWEET HOME is played
-behind the scenes, soft and low, with stringed instruments, while they
-are climbing the rocks, and various colored lights are thrown upon the
-scene, making an effective and beautiful tableaux.</i></p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak">ACT IV.<br />HIAWATHA’S WEDDING FEAST.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Scene first; same as Act III. Lake shore with
-forest, with the Tepee of Old Nokomis on the shore of the lake. Many
-Indians grouped here and there with NOKOMIS waiting and watching for
-the arrival of HIAWATHA and MINNEHAHA who are seen approaching from a
-distance, NOKOMIS and the Indians coming joyously forward to welcome
-them. In this scene are introduced an imitation of, or, better still, a
-Genuine Indian Feast; Indian Music; Indian Songs; Sports and Pastimes,
-and Indian Dances in Native Costumes by Native Indians—if possible.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Sumptuous was the feast Nokomis</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Made at Hiawatha’s wedding;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All the bowls were made of bass-wood,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">White and polished very smoothly.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All the spoons of horn of bison,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Black and polished very smoothly.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She had sent through all the village</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the wedding guests assembled,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Clad in all their richest raiment,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Robes of fur and belts of wampum,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Splendid with their paint and plumage,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beautiful with beads and tassels.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Nokomis, (seeing Hiawatha and Bride approaching)</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">With a shout and song of triumph,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On the shore stood old Nokomis,</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">We bid you welcome Hiawatha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">We have waited long your coming,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Welcome to your home and people.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, (leading forward Minnehaha)</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Dear Old Nokomis,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A daughter have I brought to you</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the land of the Dacotahs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Minnehaha, Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who shall run upon your errands,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Be the sunlight of my people.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis, to Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">The Objibways welcome the Dacotah maiden,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You shall be my starlight, moonlight, firelight;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You shall be the sunlight of our people.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Indians</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Honor be to Hiawatha.</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Indians</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the people of the village</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Welcomed them with songs and dances,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Made a joyous feast, and shouted:</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description of Feast</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">First they ate the sturgeon, Nahma,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the pike, the Maskenoza,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Caught and cooked by old Nokomis;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then on pemmican they feasted,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Pemmican and buffalo marrow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Haunch of deer and hump of bison,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yellow cakes of the Mondamin,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the wild rice of the river.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha, Minnehaha and Nokomis</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">But the gracious Hiawatha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the lovely Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the careful old Nokomis,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Tasted not the food before them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Only waited on the others,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Only served their guests in silence.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Nokomis</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">And when all the guests had finished,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Old Nokomis, brisk and busy,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From an ample pouch of otter,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Filled the red stone pipes for smoking</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With tobacco from the South-land,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then she said to Chibiabos,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the friend of Hiawatha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the sweetest of all singers,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the best of all musicians.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Sing to us, O Chibiabos!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Songs of love and songs of longing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the feast may be more joyous,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the time may pass more gayly,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And our guests be more contented!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Chibiabos</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">And the gentle Chibiabos</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sang in accents sweet and tender,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sang in tones of deep emotion,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Songs of love and songs of longing;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Looking still at Hiawatha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Looking at fair Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sang he softly, sang in this wise:</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Chibiabos Song</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Onaway! Awake, beloved!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thou the wild-flower of the forest!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thou the wild-bird of the prairie!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thou with eyes so soft and fawn-like!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">If thou only lookest at me,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I am happy, I am happy,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As the lilies of the prairie,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When they feel the dew upon them!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Sweet thy breath is as the fragrance</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of the wild-flowers in the morning,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As their fragrance is at evening,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the Moon when leaves are falling.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Does not all the blood within me</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As the springs to meet the sunshine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the Moon when nights are brightest?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Onaway! my heart sings to thee,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sings with joy when thou art near me,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As the sighing, singing branches</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the pleasant Moon of Strawberries.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">When thou art not pleased, beloved,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then my heart is sad and darkened,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As the shining river darkens,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When the clouds drop shadows on it!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">When thou smilest, my beloved,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then my troubled heart is brightened,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As in sunshine gleam the ripples</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the cold wind makes in rivers.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Smiles the earth, and smiles the waters,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Smile the cloudless skies above us,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But I lose the way of smiling</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When thou art no longer near me!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">I myself, myself, behold me!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Blood of my beating heart, behold me!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O awake, awake, beloved!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Onaway! awake, beloved!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis, to Pau-Puk-Keewis</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">O Pau-Puk-Keewis,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dance for us your merry dances,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dance the Beggar’s Dance to please us,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the feast may be more joyous,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the time may pass more gayly,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And our guests be more contented!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Pau-Puk-Keewis</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then the handsome Pau-Puk-Keewis,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He the Idle Yenadizze,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He the merry mischief-maker,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whom the people called the Storm-Fool,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rose among the guests assembled.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Skilled was he in sports and pastimes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the game of quoits and ball play,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In all games of skill and hazard.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He was dressed in shirt of doe-skin,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">White and soft, and fringed with ermine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All inwrought with beads of wampum;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He was dressed in deer-skin leggings,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Fringed with hedgehog quills and ermine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And in moccasins of buckskin,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thick with quills and beads embroidered.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On his head were plumes of swan’s down,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On his heels were tails of foxes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In one hand a fan of feathers,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And a pipe was in the other.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Barred with streaks of red and yellow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Streaks of blue and bright vermilion,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Shone the face of Pau-Puk-Keewis.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From his forehead fell his tresses,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Smooth, and parted like a woman’s.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Shining bright with oil, and plaited,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hung with braids of scented grasses,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As among the guests assembled,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the sound of flutes and singing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the sound of drums and voices,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rose the handsome Pau-Puk-Keewis,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And began his mystic dances</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Dance, Pau-Puk-Keewis</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">First he danced a solemn measure,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Very slow in step and gesture,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In and out among the pine-trees,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Through the shadows and the sunshine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Treading softly like a panther.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then more swiftly and still swifter,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whirling, spinning round in circles,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Leaping o’er the guests assembled,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Eddying round and round the wigwam,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Till the leaves went whirling with him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Till the dust and wind together</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Swept in eddies round about him.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then along the sandy margin</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of the lake, the Big-Sea-Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On he sped with frenzied gestures.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Stamped upon the sand, and tossed it</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wildly in the air around him;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Till the wind became a whirlwind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Till the sand was blown and sifted</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Like great snowdrifts o’er the landscape,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sand Hills of the Nagow Wudjoo!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Thus the merry Pau-Puk-Keewis</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Danced his Beggar’s Dance to please them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, returning, sat down laughing</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">There among the guests assembled,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sat and fanned himself serenely</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his fan of turkey-feathers.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Chibiabos</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then again sang Chibiabos,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sang a song of love and longing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In those accents sweet and tender,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In those tones of pensive sadness,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sang a maiden’s lamentation</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For her lover, her Algonquin.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Song</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="center"><i>The original of this song may be found in Oneata, p. 15</i>.
-<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">When I think of my beloved,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! think of my beloved,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When my heart is thinking of him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Ah me! when I parted from him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Round my neck he hung the wampum,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As a pledge, the snow-white wampum,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“I will go with you he whispered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! to your native country;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Let me go with you, he whispered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Far away, away, I answered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Very far away, I answered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! is my native country,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“When I looked back to behold him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Where we parted, to behold him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">After me he still was gazing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“By the tree he still was standing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">By the fallen tree was standing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That had dropped into the water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“When I think of my beloved,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! think of my beloved,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When my heart is thinking of him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Indian pastimes, games, dances and specialties
-should be here introduced. If possible a national Indian dance by a
-number of Indians. The Harvest Dance, Ghost Dance or a War Dance, with
-colored lights thrown upon the scene and soft music behind scenes,
-forming tableaux during dances and before the curtain falls.</i></p>
-
-<p class="f150 space-above2"><i>CURTAIN.</i></p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak">ACT V.<br />FAMINE, FEVER AND<br /> MINNEHAHA’S DEATH.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Forest and Lake, same as Act IV, but WINTER.
-Interior of Nokomis’ Tepee. Present, Hiawatha, Nokomis and Minnehaha
-all of whose appearance indicate starvation and great suffering. Fever
-and Famine, the ghosts, two tall, slim girls, with white, haggard
-faces, dressed entirely in black drapery with no lines to break
-effect.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha: (with great depth of feeling.)</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">O this long and dreary Winter</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O this cold and cruel Winter!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ever thicker, thicker, thicker</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Grows the ice on lake and river,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ever deeper, deeper, deeper</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Falls the snow o’er all the landscape,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Falls the covering snow, and drifting</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Through the forest, round the village,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Hardly from his buried wigwam</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Can the hunter force a passage;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With my mittens and my snowshoes</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Vainly walked I through the forest,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sought for bird or beast and found none,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Saw no track of deer or rabbit,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the snow beheld no footprints,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the ghastly, gleaming forest</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Fell, and could not rise from weakness,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Almost perished there from cold and hunger.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">O the famine and the fever!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O the wasting of the famine!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O the blasting of the fever!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O the wailing of the children!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O the anguish of the women!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">All the earth is sick and famished;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hungry is the air around them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hungry is the sky above them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And the hungry stars in heaven</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Like the eyes of wolves glare at them!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span>
-<i>Minnehaha, (turning to Hiawatha, reaching out her
-hands and piteously beseeching of him:)</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Give me food, O Hiawatha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Give us food, for we are starving,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Give us food, or we must perish.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Fever and Famine</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then the curtain of the doorway</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From without was slowly lifted;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And two women entered softly,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Passed the doorway uninvited,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Without word of salutation,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Without sign of recognition,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sat down in the farthest corner,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Crouching low among the shadows.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Very pale and haggard were they,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As they sat there sad and silent,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Trembling, cowering with the shadows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sobbing, weeping, wailing.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha, Softly</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">They are famished;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Let them do what best delights them;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Let them eat, for they are famished.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, musingly to himself</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who are they?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">What strange guests has Minnehaha?</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, to Fever and Famine</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">I bid you welcome</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To my lodge, to my fireside;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">O guests! why is it</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That your hearts are so afflicted,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That you sob so in the sunlight?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Has perchance the old Nokomis,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Has my wife, my Minnehaha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ever wronged or grieved you by unkindness,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ever failed in hospitable duties?</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Fever and Famine</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">We are ghosts of the departed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Souls of those who once were with you.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hither have we come to try you.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">These are corpses clad in garments,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">These are ghosts that come to haunt you,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the kingdom of Ponemah,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the land of the Hereafter!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Cries of grief and lamentation</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Reach us in the Blessed Islands;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Cries of anguish from the living,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Calling back their friends departed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sadden us with useless sorrow.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Therefore have we come to try you;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">No one knows us, no one heeds us.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">We are but a burden to you,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And we see that the departed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Have no place among the living.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Think of this, O Hiawatha!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Speak of it to all the people,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That henceforward and forever</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">They no more with lamentations</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sadden the souls of the departed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the Islands of the Blessed.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Do not lay such heavy burdens</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the graves of those you bury.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, noble Hiawatha!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">We have put you to the trial,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the proof have put your patience,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">By the insult of our presence,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">By the outrage of our actions.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">We have found you great and noble,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Faint not in the greater trial,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Faint not in the hardest struggle.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span></p>
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Fever and Famine, with haggard and hollow eyes,
-turn toward and approach Minnehaha, meanwhile Hiawatha,
-Nokomis and Minnehaha trying to ward them off.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Famine</i>,</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Behold me!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I am Famine, Bukadawin!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Fever</i>,</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Behold me!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I am Fever, Ahkosewin!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">And the lovely Minnehaha</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Shuddered as they looked upon her,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Shuddered at the words they uttered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Lay down on her bed in silence,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hid her face but made no answer;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Lay there trembling, Freezing, burning</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At the looks they cast upon her,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At the fearful words they uttered.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha, first preparing for journey</i>,</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Wrapped in furs and armed for hunting,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his mighty bow of ash-tree,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his quiver full of arrows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his mittens, Minjekahwun,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Forth into the empty forest</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rushed the maddened Hiawatha;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In his heart was deadly sorrow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In his face a stony firmness;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On his brow the sweat of anguish</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Started, but it froze and fell not.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Into the vast and vacant forest</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On his snowshoes strode he forward.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Scene shifts, showing Hiawatha in a dense
-forest, with trees covered with snow and ice, hunting food for
-Minnehaha, becoming discouraged, he sits down on a log or rock, ponders
-and talks to himself.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, despondently, ruminating</i>,</p>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p>
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Lo! how all things fade and perish!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the memory of the old men</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Pass away the great traditions,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">On the grave-posts of our fathers</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Are no signs, no figures painted;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who are in those graves we know not,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Only know they are our fathers,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of what kith they are and kindred,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From what old, ancestral Totem,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Be it Eagle, Bear or Beaver,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">They descended, this we know not,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Only know they are our fathers.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Face to face we speak together,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But we cannot speak when absent,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Cannot send our voices from us</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the friends that dwell afar off;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Cannot send a secret message,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But the bearer learns our secret,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">May pervert it, may betray it,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">May reveal it unto others.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">’Twas through this forest, dark and gloomy,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the balmy days of summer</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That I brought my bride, Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the land of the Dakotahs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Through this forest, bleak and frozen,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Brought my moonlight, starlight, firelight,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Brought the sunshine of my people,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Minnehaha, Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Handsomest of all the women</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the land of the Dacotahs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the land of handsome women.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When she followed me, her husband.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Buries his head in his hands, then rising,
-stretching his hands toward Heaven with head uplifted cries aloud with
-great feeling.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Gitche Manitou, the Mighty!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In this bitter hour of anguish,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Give your children food, O father!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Give us food, or we must perish!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Give me food for Minnehaha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For my dying Minnehaha!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Through the far-resounding forest,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Through the forest vast and vacant</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rang that cry of desolation,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But there came no other answer</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Than the echo of his crying,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Than the echo of the woodlands.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Echo.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Minnehaha! Minnehaha! Ha! Ha!</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha disappears in the forest looking for game.</i></p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Scene changes showing the interior of the
-tepee where Minnehaha lies sick and dying. Fever sitting at her head,
-Famine at her feet, both staring at her. Old Nokomis sitting at the
-back of the couch, watching over and caring for her with maternal love
-and pity.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha, feebly</i>,</p>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>To Fever and Famine</i>.</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">To-morrow</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Is the last day of my conflict,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Is the last day of my fasting.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You will conquer and o’ercome me;</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Turning to Nokomis, pathetically</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dear old Nokomis,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Make a bed for me to lie in,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Where the rain may fall upon me,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Where the sun may come and warm me;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Lay me in the earth, and make it</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Soft and loose and light above me.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Let no hand disturb my slumber,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Only come yourself to watch me,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Till I wake, and start, and quicken,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Till I leap into the sunshine.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span></p>
-<p class="big-indent"><i>After a silence.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! think of my beloved,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the bleak and frozen forest</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">My heart is thinking of him.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Another silence.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Far away, away,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Very far away,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! is my native country.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Half raising herself and speaking wildly</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Hark! I hear a rushing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hear a roaring and a rushing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hear the Falls of Minnehaha</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Calling to me from a distance!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis, soothingly</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">No, no, my child!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">’Tis only the night-wind in the pine-trees!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha, deliriously, pointing</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Look! I see my father</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Standing lonely at his doorway,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beckoning to me from his wigwam</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the land of the Dakotahs!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">No, no, my child!</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">’Tis only the smoke, that waves and beckons!</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha, wildly, raving</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Ah! The eyes of Pauguk</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Glare upon me in the darkness,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I can feel his icy fingers</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Clasping mine amid the darkness!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha! Hiawatha!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Shrieking loudly and falls back dead.</i></p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Fever and Famine at Minnehaha’s death, glide
-out, Nokomis changes position taking a seat at her feet, then rocking
-back and forth wails and moans.</i></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Wahonowin! Wahonowin!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Would that I had perished for you,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Would that I were dead as you are!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wahonowin! Wahonowin!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Ah! why do the living,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Lay such heavy burdens on us!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Better were it to go naked,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Better were it to go fasting,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Than to bear such heavy burdens</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On our long and weary journey!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O that I were dead!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O that I were dead, as thou art?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">No more work, and no more weeping,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wahonowin! Wahonowin!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>During this scene a low, soft dirge should
-be played behind the scenes. Indians are to be seen peeping from
-behind trees and rocks, some after the death coming to look into the
-wigwam.</i></p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span></p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Indian chiefs, wailing and shaking their
-medicine-pouches over the head of Minnehaha.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Hi-au-ha!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Way-ha-way!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She has gone</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the land of ghosts and shadows.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hi-au-ha!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Way-ha-way!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha rushed into the wigwam,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Saw the old Nokomis slowly</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rocking to and fro and moaning,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Saw his lovely Minnehaha</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Lying dead and cold before him,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And his bursting heart within him</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Uttered such a cry of Anguish,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the forest moaned and shuddered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That the very stars in heaven</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Shook and trembled with his anguish.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha, astounded, shocked, then mournfully.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dead out of the empty heaven,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dead among the starving people,</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Calling to Heaven, despairingly</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Master of Life!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Must our lives depend on these things?</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Moans, cries, then softly murmurs.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ah, showain nemeshin, Nosa!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Pity, pity me, my father!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Pathetically beseeching Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">O! my Minnehaha; O, my Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Do not leave me thus;</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You were my moonlight, starlight, firelight</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You were the sunshine of my life,</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Whispering to her in her slumbers</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Though you are far from me</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the land of Sleep and Silence,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Still the voice of love should reach you!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis,&nbsp;sorrowfully,&nbsp;resignedly</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">She is dead, the Laughing Water!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She the dearest of all creatures!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She has gone from us forever,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She has moved a little nearer</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the Master of all life,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the Master of all sunshine!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She has gone</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the regions of the home-wind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of the Northwest wind Keewaydin,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the Islands of the Blessed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the kingdom of Ponemah,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the land of the Hereafter!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha, sitting down, looking lovingly and
-mournfully at her meditates</i>,</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Oh! those willing feet, that never</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">More will lightly run to meet me,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Never more will lightly follow.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then he sat down, still and speechless</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On the bed of Minnehaha</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At the head of Laughing Water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As if in a swoon he sat there,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Speechless, motionless, unconscious.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span></p>
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>After awhile, rising, he goes back of the
-couch, thus standing, looks down upon her, saying with sorrow and deep
-pathos</i>,</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">Farewell! Minnehaha!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, O my Laughing Water!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All my heart is buried with you,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All my thoughts go onward with you!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Come not back again to labor,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Come not back again to suffer,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Where the Famine and the Fever,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wear the heart and waste the body.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Soon my task will be completed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Soon your footsteps I shall follow</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the Islands of the Blessed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the Kingdom of Ponemah,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the Land of the Hereafter!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>A reproduction of an Indian death scene and an
-Indian funeral could here be given. Soft music behind scenes. Colored
-lights should be thrown upon the scene making a very effective tableau,
-showing interior of the tepee with Indians seen scattered here and
-there outside in the wintry forest.</i></p>
-
-<p class="f150 space-above2"><i>CURTAIN.</i></p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak">ACT VI.<br />HIAWATHA’S DEPARTURE.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Shore of the lake with a forest on its margin.
-A peaceful quiet summer scene. In the distance Indian tents, and nearer
-the tepee of Nokomis. Indians scattered here and there, some making a
-birch bark canoe in true Ojibway fashion, others shooting at target
-and indulging in Indian pastimes. Hiawatha standing on the lake shore.
-Here can be given a transformation and spectacular scene and tableaux,
-showing Minnehaha in the distance as an angel and hovering o’er them.
-Or, the following spectacular</i>—Suddenly in the distance soft low
-sweet music is heard (by stringed instruments behind the scenes), and
-across the lake through a rift in the sky is seen a bright heavenly
-light, growing brighter and brighter, then an object is seen growing
-more and more distinct as the music grows louder, the object draws
-nearer and the light brighter, and as the object comes into view it is
-discovered to be a birch bark canoe gliding toward them. In the canoe
-is Minnehaha dressed as an angel and using paddle. The soft sweet music
-grows nearer and louder, and the halo of light surrounding her brighter
-as the canoe approaches. The Indians stop their various pursuits
-and stand in attitudes of astonishment watching the canoe approach.
-Hiawatha, stepping forward to the margin of the lake when Minnehaha is
-first seen, stands shading his eyes, expectantly watching and waiting.
-Nokomis also comes forth from her tepee. Minnehaha beckons to Hiawatha.
-As she approaches them Hiawatha recognizing her, steps forward, close
-to the waters edge, and with hands extended and a smile of joy and
-triumph, and a look of exultation waits. As the boat stops close to
-shore and Minnehaha again beckons to him, he apparently hesitates
-between her and leaving his people, then again turns to her, with
-exultation, hope, joy and deep feeling.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span></p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Oh, my angel, Minnehaha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Long have I been waiting for you!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Youth is lovely, age is lonely,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Youth is fiery, age is frosty;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You bring back the days departed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You bring back my youth of passion,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O my beautiful Laughing Water</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">My lovely wife, my Minnehaha.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha turns first to Nokomis and then to his
-people, as though loth to leave them. Then, again
-looking at Minnehaha, who motions to him smilingly</i>:</p>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">O’er the water, flying,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Through the shining mist of morning,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Comes a birch canoe with paddles,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rising, sinking on the water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dripping, flashing in the sunshine;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">O’er the water floating, flying,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Something in the hazy distance,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Something in the mists of morning,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Loomed and lifted from the water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Now seemed floating, now seemed flying,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Coming nearer, nearer, nearer.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">From the brow of Hiawatha</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Gone was every trace of sorrow.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As the fog from off the water,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As the mist from off the meadow.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With a smile of joy and triumph,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With a look of exultation,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As of one who in a vision</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sees what is to be, but is not,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Stood and waited Hiawatha.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And the noble Hiawatha,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With his hands aloft extended,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Held aloft in sign of welcome,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Waited, full of exultation.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span></p>
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, to Nokomis, tenderly</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">I am going, O Nokomis,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On a long and distant journey,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the portals of the Sunset,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To the regions of the home-wind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of the Northwest wind, Keewaydin.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Motioning to his people.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">In your watch and ward I leave them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">See that never harm comes near them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">See that never fear molests them,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Never danger nor suspicion,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Never want of food nor shelter,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the lodge of Hiawatha.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis, sobbing.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, O Hiawatha!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, my child, my noble Hiawatha.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, turning to Indians</i>:</p>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span></p>
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manitou, the Mighty,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Showed me in my vision,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All the secrets of the future,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of the distant days that shall be.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I beheld the westward marches</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of the unknown crowded nations.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All the land was full of people,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Restless, struggling, toiling, striving,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Speaking many tongues, yet feeling</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But one heart-beat in their bosoms.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In our woodlands rang their axes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Smoked their towns in all our valleys,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Over all the lakes and rivers</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rushed their great canoes of thunder.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then a darker, drearier vision</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Passed before me, vague and cloud-like:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I beheld our nation scattered,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All forgetful of my counsels.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">There are great men, I have known such,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whom their own people understand not,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whom they even make a jest of.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Stepping into canoe and drifting away.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">I am going, O my people,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On a long and distant journey;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Many moons and many winters</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Will have come and will have vanished,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ere again I meet you.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Indian Chiefs</i>:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent2">We have listened to your message,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">We have heard your words of wisdom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">We will think on what you tell us.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Farewell, O Hiawatha!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>All Indians, sorrowfully, watching and waving adieu.</i></p>
-
-<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, Hiawatha, the beloved!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, forever! Farewell, O Hiawatha.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="big-indent"><i>Canoe is seen disappearing in the distance.</i></p>
-
-<p class="f150 space-above2"><i>CURTAIN.</i></p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="transnote bbox space-above2">
-<p class="f120 space-above1">Transcriber’s Notes:</p>
-<hr class="r10" />
-<p class="indent">Typographical and punctuation errors have been silently corrected.</p>
-</div>
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