Hiawatha’s Vision
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On the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water Hiawatha, old and graying, listened to the older prophet, listened to Iagu And the young men and the women from the land of the Ojibways From the land of the Dakotas, from the woodlands and the prairies Stood and listened to the prophet, heard Iagu tell Hiawatha I have seen, he said, A water, bigger than the Big-Sea-Water Broader than the Gitche Gumee, bitter, so that none could drink it Salty, so that none would use it Hiawatha then spoke to them, stopped all their jeering and their jesting And he spoke to all the people It's true, what Iagu tells you, for I have seen it in a vision I have also seen the water to the east, to the land of morning And upon this great water came a strange canoe with pinions Bigger than a grove of pinetrees, taller than the tallest treetops And upon this great canoe were sails to carry it swiftly And it carried many people, strange and foreign were these people And white were all their faces, and with hair their chins were covered Then said Hiawatha, I beheld a darker vision Many hundreds came behind them, pushed their way across our prairies In our woodlands rang their axes, in our valleys smoked their cities Our people were all scattered, all forgetful of our counsels Left their homelands, going westward wild and woeful And the men with bearded faces, the men with skin so fair With their barking sticks of thunder drove the remnants of our people Farther westward, westward, westward Then wilder, wild and wilder, grew the West that once was ours
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- Johnny Cash