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In those days said Hiawatha, / "Lo! how all things fade and perish! / From the memory of the old men / Pass away the great traditions, / The achievements of the warriors, / The adventures of the hunters, / All the wisdom of the Medas, / All the craft of the Wabenos, / All the marvellous dreams and visions / Of the Jossakeeds, the Prophets!
"Great men die and are forgotten, / Wise men speak; their words of wisdom / Perish in the ears that hear them, / Do not reach the generations / That, as yet unborn, are waiting / In the great, mysterious darkness / Of the speechless days that shall be!