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

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"No more to wrinkled grow and die,
No more in weary toil to pine ;
To dance and sing not weep and cry-
To like the starlight glow and shine."
All home-delighting tales she told :
Of him, the wrestler never thrown,
The greatest trickster, jester bold,
The greatest mischief-maker known ;
Him, Pau-puk-kee-wis, wizard sprite,
That in a hundred forms was slain,
Yet ever with new strength and might
In bird and beast did live again.
Of him, far seeking fairer boon
Than is the noblest gift of men,
losco,
to the sun and moon
That journeyed, and returned again ;
Of all the wonders that he saw,
The strange adventures that befel,
Of every mighty Manito
That helped or hindered, she could tell,
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