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

80 THE LEAGUE OF THE IBOQU01S.
The Wa-wa honking on the lake,
Far on the wave the lonely Mahng,
The So-ra quacking in the brake,
The stormy Key-oshk's noisy clang ;
The Wa-won-ais-se's plaint and cry,
The great War-Ke-neiTs screech and squall,
0-me-me's plaintive moan and sigh,
The Ko-ko-ko-ho's lonely call.
Knew every bush and shrub and tree,
The flowers that blossomed in the wood ;
All herbs, and what their potency,
And which was ill and which was good ;
A part of all she saw so near,
In Nature's heart so immanent,
Unto her finer sense and ear
All things their deeper meaning lent.
Does He, whose mighty power bestows
The life of all, great Wa-zha-wand,
Crown with his larger bounty, those-,
From these withhold with stinted hand,
The tribes and races of mankind ?
Bear one a blessing, one a curse ?
Or only do we fail to find
The measure meet for gifts diverse ? 30