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

SPEECH OF ME-TEY-A.
:
Me-tey-a thou didst make thine own
Thy people's wrongs
still unredressed.
Remembering the despairing moan
That struggled through thy vain protest,
I hear again, or seem to hear :
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'My Father, hearken what I say ;
Have pity on your children dear
They would not go afar away.
"You see our land is
very fair ;
We sold you of our land before ;
Your children built their wigwams there ;
Already you are asking more ;
But oh ! we cannot sell you all
We cannot sell our homes to-day ;
Our country now is all too small ;
We would not go afar away.
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