The league of the Iroquois and other legends : from the Indian muse

86 THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS.
In royal mantle rich arrayed,
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That heightened more his manly air,
That showed, in many
a to-tem braid
Inwove, the Tortoise, Wolf and Bear ;
In moccasins with the marvelous hem,
In snowy leggins beaded grand,
En wrought with many a curious gem,
He trod the Onondaga strand.
And forth that wonder-built canoe
From out its secret place he brought,
Unto the pebbly marge he drew
The bark by mystic fingers wrought ;
That, as of old, did gaily ride,
The rippled wells, nor overworn,
Though it had crossed the swelling tide
From Isles beyond the Gates of Morn.
As though
it felt love's eager haste,
Its barky .sides more lightly pressed,
The flashing waves more fleetly traced,
To bear him on his loving quest ;
To far Ti-o-to bear him hence
Swift as the Wa-wa 1 s
wing and light,
Before the westering sun should glance
His arrows from the rocky height ;