3354
Whence this legends and traditions,
[Thank you, Bill. I was hoping this one would get going again.]
3355
With the odors of the forest
3356
But with Discourse, someone will have to srart a new thread every 10,000 posts.
[That’s ok, we’ll just continue in the new thread.]
3357
With the dew and damp of meadows,
3358
With the curling smoke of wigwams,
3359
With the rushing if the great rivers…
3360
With their frequent repetitions,
3361
And their wild reverberations
3362
As of thunder in the mountains?
-“BB”-
3363
I should answer, I should tell you,
3364
"From the forests and the prairies,
3365
From the land of Ojibways,
3366
From the land of the Dacotahs,
3367
From the mountains, moors and fen-lands,
3368
Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,
3369
Feeds among the reeds and rushes.
3370
“I repeat them as I heard them”
3371
From the lips of Nawadaha,
(Could we go back to songs that don’t go on forever?)
3372
The musician, the sweet singer."
(How about songs that actually make sense?)
3373
Should you ask where Nawadaha
Found these songs so wild and wayward
(hey, dudes and/or dudettes, this is classic American literature!!!
… although if we do two lines at a time, it won’t take as long to go through it)
-“BB”-