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Should you ask me, whence these stories? / Whence these legends and traditions, / With the odors of the forest / With the dew and damp of meadows, / With the curling smoke of wigwams, / With the rushing of great rivers, / With their frequent repetitions, / And their wild reverberations / As of thunder in the mountains?
I should answer, I should tell you, / "From the forests and the prairies, / From the great lakes of the Northland, / From the land of the Ojibways, / From the land of the Dacotahs, / From the mountains, moors, and fen-lands / Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, / Feeds among the reeds and rushes. / I repeat them as I heard them / From the lips of Nawadaha, / The musician, the sweet singer."