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You shall hear how Hiawatha / Prayed and fasted in the forest, / Not for greater skill in hunting, / Not for greater craft in fishing, / Not for triumphs in the battle, / And renown among the warriors, / But for profit of the people, / For advantage of the nations.
First he built a lodge for fasting, / Built a wigwam in the forest, / By the shining Big-Sea-Water, / In the blithe and pleasant Spring-time, / In the Moon of Leaves he built it, / And, with dreams and visions many, / Seven whole days and nights he fasted.