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

IV
THE
WONDROUS DEEDS.
WITH cheerful, labor-bearing hand
And with an art unknown before,
Or only in that Better Land
Away beyond the morning shore,
Where rose Yo-non-to near and large
With Onoiidaga murmuring nigh,
He built his wigwam on the marge,
A royal wigwam, wide and high.
Far in the fenland, toiling long,
He felled the larches where they grew ;
Thence with a willing arm and strong
He forth the waiting timbers drew ;
And them upstanding, straight and tall,
Together firm inweaving, he
Wide stretched and battened over all
The bark of many
a birchen tree.