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Downward through the evening twilight, / In the days that are forgotten, / In the unremembered ages, / From the full moon fell Nokomis, / Fell the beautiful Nokomis, / She a wife, but not a mother.
She was sporting with her women, / Swinging in a swing of grape-vines, / When her rival, the rejected, / Full of jealousy and hatred, / Cut the leafy swing asunder, / Cut in twain the twisted grape-vines, / And Nokomis fell affrighted / Downward through the evening twilight, / On the Muskoday, the meadow, / On the prairie full of blossoms. / "See! a star falls! " said the people; / "From the sky a star is falling!"