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

44 THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS.
And stronger waxed the hand that drew :
And all the new-born eagerness
For knowledge unto knowledge grew
:
They more desire who more possess.
They saw in arrow speeding straight.
In flinty war-ax winged in air.
A prophecy of nobler fate,
And burned all noble deeds to dare.
From Inigorio the Good,
Gifts brought he from that fairer shore
Unto the People of the Wood :
Some token of the love he bore
His children of the forest-wild ;
That they who dwell in shadows dim,
Him knowing more who on them smiled.
Would more delight in love of him.
And Hayo-went-ha, toiling long
Beside the Onondaga strand,
With patient hand, for labor strong,
Clove wide the forest, cleared the land ;
And pondering wise the mystery,
The wondrous secrets unrevealed
Of life that is of life to be
He mellowed all the waiting field.