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

THE FEAST, 187
With many a scaly beast that leaps
And flounders in the watery caves ;
Great Dodi-ah-to from the deeps,
The Sah-wa from the shallow waves ;
Jik-on-sis with his speckled breast,
0-nok-sa glistening like the morn,
Da-hin-da in his shining vest,
U-no-wul in his shell of horn.
And many
The Ta-wis and the Oghk-we-se,
a bird that ran or flew :
The So-ha-ut of sable hue,
The Ka-ka and the Kwa-ra-re.
And many a fowl that clanged the spring :
The quacking So-ra from the brake,
The Wau-be-zee with downy wing,
The honking Wa-wa from the lake.
Great Ke-ka-dah-nong on the sand,
K wan-Run-ge-a-gosh on the tide ;
All creatures of the sea and land
Had yielded up their lives and died.
Of fish and reptile, bird and beast,
Or named or nameless, there and then
Was wide outspread the mighty feast
To feed a thousand hungry men."
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