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

54 THE LEAGUE OF THE IBOQUOIS.
He shared with them the banquet spread
Around the camp-fire blazing high ;
He far for them his arrows sped,
He slew the monsters prowling nigh ;
On him such mighty deeds he wrought-
They wondering gazed in fear and awe ;
While of the hunter-bow he taught
Them how to hold and how to draw.
And thence again went speeding on,
Till Gitche Gumee's silver smiles
Shone beauteous in the setting sun,
With widening shores and shining isles.
There, where the angry billows roll,
With Art that time's corroding mocks,
He pictured many a curious scroll
His to-tems
on the beetling rocks.
Vast rumors all the forest stirred
Of Him, and still the wonder ran ;
He far the welcome greeting heard
"Ta-ren-ya-wargo Mighty Man ! ! !" "
And though a race untamed and rude,
His manly speech, with wisdom fraught,
Allayed the Avhile their fiercer mood ;
Himself, in teaching, something taught.