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De Vine</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: January 12, 2022 [eBook #67148]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DRAMATIZATION OF LONGFELLOW'S HIAWATHA ***</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<h1>A DRAMATIZATION OF<br />LONGFELLOW’S<br /><br /><big>HIAWATHA</big>.</h1> - -<p class="f150">A Spectacular Drama in Six Acts.</p> - -<p class="center space-above2">Delineating the Characteristics and Customs<br /> -OF<br /><span class="fontsize_120">THE NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.</span></p> - -<p class="center space-above2"><i>Re-written, Revised, Arranged and Dramatized<br /> -By A. L. DE VINE.</i></p> - -<p class="center space-above2"><i>Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1895<br /> -By A. L. DE VINE.<br />In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.</i></p> - -<p class="center space-above1">ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.</p> - -<p class="center space-above1"><i>Copyrighted in Great Britain and British Possessions,<br /> -France, Germany, Italy,<br />Belgium, Denmark, Portugal and Switzerland.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak">INTRODUCTORY.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">To ye whose hearts are fresh and simple</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who have faith in God and Nature,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who believe that in all ages</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Every human heart is human,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That in even savage bosoms</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There are longings, yearnings, strivings</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the good they comprehend not,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the feeble hands and helpless,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Groping blindly in the darkness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Touch God’s right hand in that darkness</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And are lifted up and strengthened,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p class="drop-cap"><span class="smcap"><b>Is submitted</b></span> this -portrayal of the primitive life of the American Indians in their native -forest home. Fully realizing how rapidly the race is becoming extinct -before the onward march of civilizing influences, and how little the -people of this and other countries really know of such customs, dress, -and peculiarities, it is believed this spectacular drama will be -found historical, an educator to the young and interesting to -<span class="smcap">all</span>. In thus depicting the higher and better -life of the Indian race, their mode of living, dress, pastimes, feats of -skill, dances, wooings, wedding feasts, festivities, death scenes and -legends, the author has adhered to the original language of the poem as -closely as is consistent with a faithful dramatization thereof.</p> - -<p>This is the first and only known drama of this kind or character in -existence, and no other subject, throughout the wide and varied field -of poetry, offers like opportunities to the facile pen of the skilled -playwright.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak">SYNOPSIS OF SCENES<br /> AND INCIDENTS.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p class="neg-indent2">ACT I. <span class="smcap">The Peace Pipe.</span> -Gitche Manitou (Great Spirit) descends from Heaven and admonishes the -tribes to cease warfare and bloodshed—Indians discard weapons and war -paint—Gitche Manitou promises to send Hiawatha as a guide—Fashions a -Peace Pipe—Sets fire to the forest and vanishes in smoke.</p> - -<p class="neg-indent2">ACT II. <span class="smcap">Hiawatha’s Childhood.</span> -Tribe of Ojibways—Hiawatha a babe in Indian cradle—Nokomis swinging -cradle—Indian lullaby.</p> - -<p class="neg-indent2">ACT III. <span class="smcap">Hiawatha’s Wooing.</span> -Scene 1—Hiawatha grown to manhood—Desires to wed Minnehaha, a -Dakotah maiden—Discussion—Departs on journey—Nokomis sorrowing. -Scene 2—Hiawatha in forest—Shoots a deer—Shoulders it. Scene -3—Tribe of Dakotahs—Minnehaha Falls—Wigwam of Arrow-maker—Hiawatha’s -arrival and welcome—Wooing of Minnehaha—Departure of Hiawatha and -Minnehaha—Climbing of Falls—Arrow-maker’s despondency—Tableaux.</p> - -<p class="neg-indent2">ACT IV. <span class="smcap">Wedding Feast.</span> -Forest—Ojibway village—Arrival of Hiawatha and -Minnehaha—Welcome—Festivities—Feasts, songs, feats of skill, games, -dancing and specialties—Tableaux.</p> - -<p class="neg-indent2">ACT V. <span class="smcap">Fever, Famine and Minnehaha’s Death.</span> -Winter—Tepee of Nokomis—Starvation—Minnehaha begs for food—Enter -Famine and Fever—Hiawatha hunting food—Disheartened—Appeal to Great -Spirit—Minnehaha’s sufferings and death—Lamentations—Hiawatha’s -return—Grief—Indian funeral—Tableaux.</p> - -<p class="neg-indent2">ACT VI. <span class="smcap">Hiawatha’s Departure.</span> -Summer—Indian village—Canoe approaches from distance containing -Minnehaha as angel—Music—Colored lights—Indians’ astonishment—Hiawatha -awaits her coming—Joins her—Hiawatha’s farewell—Canoe -disappears—Tableaux.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p> -<p class="f300"><b>“HIAWATHA”</b></p> -</div> -<hr class="r10" /> -<p class="f150"><b>DRAMATIS PERSONÆ</b>.</p> - -<ul class="index fontsize_120 no-wrap"> -<li class="isub1">Gitche Manito; the Indian Great Spirit and Father of all Nations.</li> -<li class="isub1">Hiawatha; the Prophet of Peace, of the tribe of Ojibways, -sent to guide the Indian nations.</li> -<li class="isub1">Ancient Arrow-maker; Minnehaha’s Father.</li> -<li class="isub1">Chibiabos; the Singer.</li> -<li class="isub1">Pau-Puk-Keewis; the Dancer.</li> -<li class="isub1">Bukadawin; Famine.</li> -<li class="isub1">Ahkosewin; Fever.</li> -<li class="isub1">Minnehaha; Hiawatha’s Bride, a Dakotah Maiden.</li> -<li class="isub1">Old Nokomis; Hiawatha’s Grand-mother.</li> -<li class="isub1">Miscellaneous Indian Braves.</li> -<li class="isub1">Miscellaneous Indian Women.</li> -</ul> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<p class="f150"><b>SYNOPSIS</b>.</p> - -<table class="no-wrap" border="0" cellspacing="2" summary=" " cellpadding="2" > - <tbody><tr> - <td class="tdl">Act 1st.</td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdl_ws1"> </td> - <td class="tdr_ws1">The Peace Pipe.</td> - </tr><tr> - <td class="tdl">Act 2nd.</td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdl_ws1"> </td> - <td class="tdr_ws1">Hiawatha’s Childhood.</td> - </tr><tr> - <td class="tdl" rowspan="4">Act 3rd.</td> - <td class="tdc" rowspan="4">Hiawatha’s<br />Wooing.</td> - <td class="tdc" rowspan="4"><img src="images/cbr-4.jpg" alt="" width="23" height="82" /></td> - <td class="tdl_ws1">Scene 1st.</td> - <td class="tdr_ws1">Hiawatha’s Discussion</td> - </tr><tr> - <td class="tdl_ws1"> </td> - <td class="tdr_ws1">with Nokomis and Departure.</td> - </tr><tr> - <td class="tdl_ws1">Scene 2nd.</td> - <td class="tdr_ws1">Hiawatha’s Journey.</td> - </tr><tr> - <td class="tdl_ws1">Scene 3rd.</td> - <td class="tdr_ws1">Wooing of Minnehaha.</td> - </tr><tr> - <td class="tdc" colspan="2"> </td> - <td class="tdl_ws1"> </td> - <td class="tdr"><img src="images/cbl-2.jpg" alt="" width="9" height="32" /></td> - <td class="tdl">Home of Arrow-maker.<br />View of Minnehaha Falls.</td> - </tr><tr> - <td class="tdl">Act 4th.</td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdl_ws1"> </td> - <td class="tdr_ws1">Wedding Feast.</td> - </tr><tr> - <td class="tdl">Act 5th.</td> - <td class="tdr_ws1" colspan="4">Fever and Famine and Minnehaha’s Death.</td> - </tr><tr> - <td class="tdl">Act 6th.</td> - <td class="tdr_ws1" colspan="4">Hiawatha’s Reunion with Minnehaha and Departure.</td> - </tr> - </tbody> -</table> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak">ACT I.<br />THE PEACE PIPE.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Description as nearly as possible to follow -description according to the poem. In background, high mountains. In -foreground, lower hills, with forest trees and Indian tents in the -distance: GITCHE MANITO; The great Spirit and FATHER of all NATIONS -descends from the clouds encircled in a flood of bright lights of -various colors; strains of soft sweet Music, as from a distance, -accompanying his descent as though from Heaven to Earth or to the top -of the mountain. The Indian representatives from all Nations in their -peculiar distinct dress of the several different tribes, grouped here -and there among the trees and rocks are attracted by the smoke signal -and are then seen coming from all directions in full Indian war paint -and costume; when signaled to by GITCHE MANITO, the Great Spirit, as -per the following poem</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act and Description of Gitche Manito</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">On the Mountains of the Prairie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manito, the Mighty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He the Master of Life DESCENDING,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On the red craigs of the quarry</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stood erect, and called the Nations,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Called the tribes of men together.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From his footprints flowed a river,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leaped into the light of morning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O’er the precipice plunging downward</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gleamed like Ishkoodah, the comet.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the Spirit, stooping earthward,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his finger on the meadow</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Traced a winding pathway for it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saying to it,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Gitche Manito</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Run in this way!</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">From the red stone of the quarry</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his hand he broke a fragment,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Moulded it into a pipe-head,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shaped and fashioned it with figures;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the margin of the river</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Took a long reed for a pipe-stem,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With its dark green leaves upon it;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Filled the pipe with bark of willow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With the bark of the red willow;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Breathed upon the neighboring forest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made its great bows chafe together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till in flame they burst and kindled;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And erect upon the mountains</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manito, the Mighty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smoked the calumet, the Peace Pipe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As a signal to the nations,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And the smoke rose slowly, slowly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the tranquil air of morning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">First a single line of darkness,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From the vale of Tawasenthena,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the Valley of Wyoming</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the groves of Tuscaloosa,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the far-off Rocky Mountains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the Northern lakes and rivers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Indians</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">All the tribes beheld the signal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saw the distant smoke ascending,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Pukwana of the Peace Pipe.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Indian Warriors</i> (<i>to each other, pointing</i>):</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Behold it, the Pukwana!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By this signal from afar off,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bending like a wand of willow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Waving like a hand that beckons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manito, the Mighty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Calls the tribes of men together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Calls the warriors to his council!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act of Indian Tribes</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Down the rivers o’er the prairies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Came the warriors of the nations,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the warriors drawn together</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the signal of the Peace Pipe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Mountains of the Prairie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And they stood there on the meadow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With their weapons and their war-gear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Painted like the leaves of Autumn,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Painted like the sky of morning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wildly glaring at each other;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In their faces stern defiance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In their hearts the feuds of ages,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The hereditary hatred</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The ancestral thirst of vengeance.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Gitche Manito</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Gitche Manito, the mighty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Creator of the nations,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Looked upon them with compassion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With paternal love and pity;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Over them he stretched his right hand.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Gitche Manito</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">O my children; my poor children!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Listen to the words of wisdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Listen to the words of warning!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the lips of the Great Spirit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the Master of life, who made you!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I have given you lands to hunt in,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I have given you streams to fish in,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I have given you bear and bison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I have given you roe and reindeer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I have given you brant and beaver,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Filled the marshes full of wild fowl,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Filled the rivers full of fishes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Why then are you not contented?</div> - <span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Why then will you hunt each other?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I am weary of your quarrels,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Weary of your wars and bloodshed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Weary of your prayers for vengeance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All your strength is in your union,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All your danger is in discord;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Therefore be at peace henceforward,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And as brothers live together.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“I will send a Prophet to you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha will I send to you</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A deliverer of the nations,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall guide you and shall teach you</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall toil and suffer with you.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If you listen to his counsels,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You will multiply and prosper;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If his warnings pass unheeded</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You will fade away and perish!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Bathe now in the stream before you</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wash the war-paint from your faces,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wash the blood stains from your fingers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bury your war clubs and your weapons,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Break the red stone from this quarry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mould and make it into Peace Pipes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Take the reeds that grow beside you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deck them with your brightest feathers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smoke the calumet together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And as brothers live henceforward!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Indians</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Then upon the ground the warriors</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Threw their cloaks and shirts of deer-skin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Threw their weapons and their war-gear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leaped into the rushing river,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Washed the war-paint from their faces.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Clear above them flowed the water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Clear and limpèd from the footprints</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the Master of Life descending;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dark below them flowed the water,</div> - <span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Soiled and stained with streaks of crimson,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if blood were mingled with it.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From the river came the warriors.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cleaned and washed from all their war-paint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On the banks their clubs they buried,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Buried all their warlike weapons.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Gitche Manito</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manito, the Mighty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Great Spirit, the Creator,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smiled upon his helpless children.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Indians</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And in silence all the warriors</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Broke the red stone of the quarry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smoothed and formed it into Peace Pipes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Broke the long reeds by the river.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Decked them with their brightest feathers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>A beautiful transformation. Scene and tableaux can -be given here with the groups of Indians, Bright -colored lights, soft Heavenly music, and GITCHE -MANITO ASCENDING again to Heaven in a CLOUD of -SMOKE.</i></p> - -<p class="big-indent">(<i>See following description.</i>)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">While the Master of Life, <span class="smcap">ascending</span></div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the opening of cloud-curtains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the doorways of the <span class="smcap">heaven</span></div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vanished from before their faces,</div> - <div class="verse indent0 space-below2">In the smoke that rolled around him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/deco.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="48" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">ACT II.<br />HIAWATHA’S CHILDHOOD.</h2> -</div> -<hr class="r10" /> - -<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>A short scene or acting tableaux, can be given -here, the scenery to follow the description in the poem, HIAWATHA, a -baby, in an Indian cradle swung between the trees which is being rocked -by old NOKOMIS (his grandmother) while she is singing the Lullaby song, -Little Owlet.</i> (<i>See following description.</i>)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By the shining Big-Sea-Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stood the wigwam of Nokomis.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dark behind it rose the forest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rose the firs with cones upon them;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bright before it beat the water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beat the clear and sunny water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There the wrinkled, old Nokomis</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nursed the little Hiawatha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rocked him in his linden cradle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bedded soft in moss and rushes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Safely bound with reindeer sinews;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stilled his fretful wail by saying,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Hush! the Naked Bear will hear thee!</p> - -<p class="big-indent">Lulled him into slumber singing, -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis Song</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ewa-yea! my little owlet!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who is this, that lights the wigwam?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his great eyes lights the wigwam?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ewa-yea! my little owlet!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wah-wah-taysee, little fire-fly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Little, flitting, white-fire insect,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Little, dancing, white-fire creature,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Light us with your little candle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ere upon your bed I lay you</div> - <div class="verse indent0 space-below2">Ere in sleep you close your eyelids!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/deco.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="48" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak">ACT III.<br />HIAWATHA’S WOOING,<br />TRIBE OF OJIBWAYS.</h2> -</div> -<hr class="r10" /> - -<h3>Scene First.<br /> Hiawatha’s Discussion with Nokomis and Departure.</h3> - -<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Same as Act II. This is supposed to be the TRIBE -and land of THE OJIBWAYS. Showing the INTERIOR of the TEPEE of Old -NOKOMIS. HIAWATHA; (tall, straight, of majestic figure, commanding -aspect, dashing and handsome,) is seen shaping an arrow to fit a bow. -NOKOMIS; a majestic Indian woman as befits HIAWATHA’S grandmother, sits -making a robe of deer skin or work of like kind. HIAWATHA sits working, -thinking, pondering.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description of Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Out of childhood into manhood</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now had grown my Hiawatha.</div> - <span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Skilled in all the craft of hunters,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Learned in all the lore of old men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In all youthful sports and pastimes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In manly arts and labors.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Swift of foot was Hiawatha;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He could shoot an arrow from him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And run forward with such fleetness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the arrow fell behind him!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Strong of arm was Hiawatha;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He could shoot ten arrows upward,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shoot them with such strength and swiftness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the tenth had left the bow-string</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ere the first to earth had fallen!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He had mittens, Minjekahwun,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Magic mittens made of deer-skin;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When upon his hands he wore them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He could smite the rocks asunder</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He could grind them into powder.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He had moccasins enchanted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Magic moccasins of deer-skin:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When he bound them round his ankles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When upon his feet he tied them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At each stride a mile he measured!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>; (<i>speaking meditatively</i>):</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">As unto the bow the cord is,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So unto the man is woman,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though she bends him, she obeys him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though she draws him, yet she follows,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Useless each without the other!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>; (<i>in a warning and dissuading voice</i>):</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Wed a maiden of your people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Go not eastward, go not westward,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For a stranger, whom we know not!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like a fire upon the hearth-stone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is a neighbor’s homely daughter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like the starlight or the moonlight</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is the handsomest of strangers!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>; (<i>persuadingly</i>):</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Dear old Nokomis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Very pleasant is the firelight.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But I like the starlight better,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Better do I like the moonlight!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>; (<i>gravely</i>):</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Bring not here an idle maiden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bring not here a useless woman,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hands unskillful, feet unwilling;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bring a wife with nimble fingers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heart and hand that move together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feet that run on willing errands!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>, (<i>Smiling</i>):</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">In the land of the Dacotahs</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lives the Arrow-maker’s daughter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Minnehaha, Laughing water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Handsomest of all the women.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I will bring her to your wigwam,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She shall run upon your errands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be your starlight, moonlight, firelight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be the sunlight of my people!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>, (<i>still dissuading</i>):</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Bring not to my lodge a stranger</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the land of the Dacotahs!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Very fierce are the Dacotahs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Often is there war between us.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There are feuds yet unforgotten,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wounds that ache and still may open!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>, (<i>laughing</i>):</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">For that reason, if no other,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would I wed the fair Dacotah,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That our tribes might be united,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That old feuds might be forgotten,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And old wounds be healed forever!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>During this conversation HIAWATHA stops his -work and prepares for his journey, OLD NOKOMIS becoming more and more -earnest and entreating as his preparations proceed: when he goes, she -follows and tries to detain him, then watches him out of sight, and the -curtain falls while she stands alone, weeping, despondent and sorrowing -at the door of her wigwam.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description of Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dressed for travel, armed for hunting;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dressed in deer-skin shirt and leggings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Richly wrought with quills and wampum;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On his head his eagle-feathers.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Round his waist his belt of wampum,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In his hand his bow of ash-wood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Strung with sinews of the reindeer;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In his quiver oaken arrows,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tipped with jasper, winged with feathers;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his mittens, Minjekahwun,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his moccasins enchanted.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Thus departed Hiawatha</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the land of the Dacotahs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the land of handsome women;</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Nokomis</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Homeward weeping went Nokomis</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sorrowing for her Hiawatha.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="r10" /> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p> - -<p class="f150"><b>ACT III.</b></p> - -<h3>Scene Second.<br /> Hiawatha’s Journey.</h3> - -<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery:</i></p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>A short scene can be given here, showing a deep -forest, also giving a view of Hiawatha upon his -journey and with his bow and arrow, shooting the -deer which he takes MINNEHAHA as a gift, and lays -at her feet on his arrival.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Through the forest deep and lonely,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then he journeyed without resting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till he heard the cataract’s laughter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heard the Falls of Minnehaha</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Calling to him through the silence.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Standing, Listening, he murmured,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza fontsize_120"> - <div class="verse indent0">Pleasant is the sound!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pleasant is the voice that calls me!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">On the outskirts of the forest,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Twixt the shadow and the sunshine,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Herds of fallow deer were feeding.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">But they saw not Hiawatha;</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha (whispering to his bow)</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Fail not!</p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha (whispering to his arrow)</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Swerve not!</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sent it singing on its errand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the red heart of the roebuck;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Threw the deer across his shoulder,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And sped forward without pausing.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<hr class="r10" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span></p> -<p class="f150"><b>ACT III.</b></p> - -<p class="center"><b>“TRIBE OF THE DACOTAHS,”</b></p> -<p class="center"><b>HOME OF THE ARROW-MAKER</b>.</p> - -<h3>Scene Third.<br /> Wooing of Minnehaha.</h3> - -<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>As perfect an imitation as possible of the -Scenery of and about MINNEHAHA FALLS. With the FALLS, also Very High -Rocks in the background. In the foreground, at the base of Minnehaha -Falls, a wigwam, representing the appearance and interior of a wigwam -of the DACOTAH TRIBE. MINNEHAHA to be tall, straight, dashing and -handsome. (See the following Description.)</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">In the land of the Dacotahs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the Falls of Minnehaha</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Flash and gleam among the oak-trees,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Laugh and leap into the valley.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Very spacious was the wigwam,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made of deer-skin dressed and whitened,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With the Gods of the Dacotahs</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Drawn and painted on its curtains,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And so tall the doorway, hardly</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha stooped to enter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hardly touched his eagle-feathers</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As he entered at the doorway.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Arrow-maker</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">At the doorway of his wigwam</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sat the ancient Arrow-maker,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the land of the Dacotahs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Making arrow-heads of jasper,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Arrow-heads of chalcedony.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description of Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At his side in all her beauty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sat the lovely Minnehaha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sat his daughter, Laughing water</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plaiting mats of flags and rushes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feet as rapid as the river,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tresses flowing like the water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And as musical a laughter;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he named her from the river,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the water-fall he named her,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Minnehaha, Laughing Water</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">She was thinking of a hunter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From another tribe and country,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Young and tall and very handsome.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On the mat her hands lay idle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And her eyes were very dreamy.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Through her thoughts she heard a footstep,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heard a rustling in the branches,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And with glowing cheek and forehead,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With the deer upon his shoulders,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Suddenly from out the woodlands</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha stood before them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Arrow-maker</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Straight the ancient Arrow-maker</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Looked up gravely from his labor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Laid aside the unfinished arrow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bade him enter at the doorway,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saying, as he rose to meet him,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Hiawatha, you are welcome!</p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">At the feet of Laughing Water</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha laid his burden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Threw the red deer from his shoulders;</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And the maiden looked up at him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Looked up from her mat of rushes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Said with gentle look and accent.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">You are welcome, Hiawatha!</p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Then uprose the Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the ground fair Minnehaha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Laid aside her mat unfinished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brought forth food and set before them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Water brought them from the brooklet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gave them food in earthen vessels,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gave them drink in bowls of bass-wood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>The following conversation to be carried on -between the ARROW-MAKER and HIAWATHA while MINNEHAHA brings the food -etc., and sets before them.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, (with much expression)</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent3">“You know of my wondrous birth and being,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">How I prayed and how I fasted,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">How I lived, and toiled, and suffered,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That the tribes of men might prosper,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That I might advance my people!”</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Dear Old Nokomis who has nursed me in my childhood - needs a daughter now to help her.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To the lodge of old Nokomis</div> - <div class="verse indent4">I would bring the moonlight, starlight, firelight,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Bring the sunshine to my people,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Give me Minnehaha, Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Handsomest of all the women</div> - <div class="verse indent4">In the land of the Dacotahs,</div> - - <div class="verse indent4">In the land of handsome women.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">There is happiness and plenty</div> - <div class="verse indent4">In the land of the Ojibways,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">In the pleasant land and peaceful.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">See the face of Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Peeping from behind the curtain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hear the rustling of her garments</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From behind the waving curtain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Listened while the guest was speaking,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Listened while her father answered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But not once her lips she opened,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not a single word she uttered.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Yes, as in a dream she listened</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the words of Hiawatha.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, (with deep feeling)</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">After many years of warfare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Many years of strife and bloodshed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There is peace between the Ojibways</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the tribe of the Dacotahs.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha; In his earnestness rising, speaking -slowly, with Great Expression, and turning toward Minnehaha.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent3">“That this peace may last forever,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And our hands be clasped more closely,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And our hearts be more united,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Give me as my wife this maiden,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Minnehaha, Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Loveliest of Dacotah women!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Reseats himself, looking expectantly and earnestly -at the Arrow-maker for his reply.</i></p> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Arrow-maker</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And the ancient Arrow-maker</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Paused a moment ere he answered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smoked a little while in silence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Looked at Hiawatha proudly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fondly looked at Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then made answer very gravely:</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker (with deep feeling)</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Yes, if Minnehaha wishes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let your heart speak, Minnehaha.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And the lovely Laughing Water</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seemed more lovely, as she stood there,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neither willing nor reluctant.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Turns FIRST to ONE and THEN to the OTHER, -hesitates at thought of leaving her father, goes to him, then turning, -looking at Hiawatha, hesitates.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then, she went to Hiawatha</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Softly took the seat beside him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">While she said, and blushed to say it.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">I will follow you my husband!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Rising, going over and speaking to Hiawatha.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">You have wooed and won my maiden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With your stories of the North-land!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Happy are you, Hiawatha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Having such a wife to love you!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker; turning, speaking to his daughter</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">Happy are you, Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Having such a noble husband!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker, (to both)</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent6">O my children,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Life is checkered shade and sunshine,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Rule by love, O Hiawatha!</div> - <div class="verse indent3">“O my children,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Day is restless, night is quiet,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Man imperious, women feeble;</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Half is hers although she follows</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Rule by patience, Laughing Water!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha and Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">From the wigwam he departed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leading with him Laughing Water;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hand in hand they went together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Left the old man standing lonely</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the doorway of his wigwam.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker, very sorrowfully</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Fare thee well, O Minnehaha!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Arrow-maker</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And the ancient Arrow-maker</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Turned again unto his labor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sat down by his sunny doorway,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Murmuring to himself, and saying:</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Arrow-maker, (meditatively and with much expression)</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent3">“Thus it is our daughters leave us</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Those we love, and those who love us!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Just when they have learned to help us,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Just when we are old and lean upon them,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Comes a youth with flaunting feathers,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">With his flute of reeds, a stranger</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Wanders piping through the village,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Beckons to the fairest maiden,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And she follows where he leads her,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Leaving father, mother, home, friends,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Leaving ALL things, for the Stranger.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha and Minnehaha are to be seen (while -Arrow-maker is thus sitting at the doorway and meditating); first -winding in and out among the trees, then climbing the rocks, coming -into view, then disappearing behind rocks; then again being seen -wending their way higher and higher upon the rocks, and when the SUMMIT -of the MINNEHAHA FALLS is reached, they are seen, Hiawatha, with his -arm around Minnehaha, pointing to the wigwam in the valley below. The -Old Arrow-maker sees them at the same time, rises, (shading his eyes -with his hand) and looks upward at them. HOME SWEET HOME is played -behind the scenes, soft and low, with stringed instruments, while they -are climbing the rocks, and various colored lights are thrown upon the -scene, making an effective and beautiful tableaux.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">ACT IV.<br />HIAWATHA’S WEDDING FEAST.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Scene first; same as Act III. Lake shore with -forest, with the Tepee of Old Nokomis on the shore of the lake. Many -Indians grouped here and there with NOKOMIS waiting and watching for -the arrival of HIAWATHA and MINNEHAHA who are seen approaching from a -distance, NOKOMIS and the Indians coming joyously forward to welcome -them. In this scene are introduced an imitation of, or, better still, a -Genuine Indian Feast; Indian Music; Indian Songs; Sports and Pastimes, -and Indian Dances in Native Costumes by Native Indians—if possible.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Sumptuous was the feast Nokomis</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made at Hiawatha’s wedding;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the bowls were made of bass-wood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">White and polished very smoothly.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the spoons of horn of bison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Black and polished very smoothly.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She had sent through all the village</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the wedding guests assembled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Clad in all their richest raiment,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Robes of fur and belts of wampum,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Splendid with their paint and plumage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beautiful with beads and tassels.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Nokomis, (seeing Hiawatha and Bride approaching)</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">With a shout and song of triumph,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On the shore stood old Nokomis,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">We bid you welcome Hiawatha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We have waited long your coming,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Welcome to your home and people.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, (leading forward Minnehaha)</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Dear Old Nokomis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A daughter have I brought to you</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the land of the Dacotahs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Minnehaha, Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who shall run upon your errands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be the sunlight of my people.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis, to Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The Objibways welcome the Dacotah maiden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You shall be my starlight, moonlight, firelight;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You shall be the sunlight of our people.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Indians</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Honor be to Hiawatha.</p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Indians</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And the people of the village</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Welcomed them with songs and dances,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made a joyous feast, and shouted:</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Description of Feast</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">First they ate the sturgeon, Nahma,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the pike, the Maskenoza,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Caught and cooked by old Nokomis;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then on pemmican they feasted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pemmican and buffalo marrow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Haunch of deer and hump of bison,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yellow cakes of the Mondamin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the wild rice of the river.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha, Minnehaha and Nokomis</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">But the gracious Hiawatha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the lovely Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the careful old Nokomis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tasted not the food before them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Only waited on the others,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Only served their guests in silence.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Nokomis</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And when all the guests had finished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Old Nokomis, brisk and busy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From an ample pouch of otter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Filled the red stone pipes for smoking</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With tobacco from the South-land,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Then she said to Chibiabos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the friend of Hiawatha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the sweetest of all singers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the best of all musicians.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Sing to us, O Chibiabos!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Songs of love and songs of longing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the feast may be more joyous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the time may pass more gayly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And our guests be more contented!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Chibiabos</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And the gentle Chibiabos</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang in accents sweet and tender,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang in tones of deep emotion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Songs of love and songs of longing;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Looking still at Hiawatha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Looking at fair Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang he softly, sang in this wise:</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Chibiabos Song</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Onaway! Awake, beloved!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou the wild-flower of the forest!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou the wild-bird of the prairie!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou with eyes so soft and fawn-like!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">If thou only lookest at me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I am happy, I am happy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As the lilies of the prairie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When they feel the dew upon them!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sweet thy breath is as the fragrance</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the wild-flowers in the morning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As their fragrance is at evening,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Moon when leaves are falling.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Does not all the blood within me</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As the springs to meet the sunshine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Moon when nights are brightest?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Onaway! my heart sings to thee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sings with joy when thou art near me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As the sighing, singing branches</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the pleasant Moon of Strawberries.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When thou art not pleased, beloved,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then my heart is sad and darkened,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As the shining river darkens,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the clouds drop shadows on it!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When thou smilest, my beloved,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then my troubled heart is brightened,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As in sunshine gleam the ripples</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the cold wind makes in rivers.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Smiles the earth, and smiles the waters,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smile the cloudless skies above us,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But I lose the way of smiling</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When thou art no longer near me!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I myself, myself, behold me!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood of my beating heart, behold me!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O awake, awake, beloved!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Onaway! awake, beloved!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis, to Pau-Puk-Keewis</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">O Pau-Puk-Keewis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dance for us your merry dances,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dance the Beggar’s Dance to please us,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the feast may be more joyous,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the time may pass more gayly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And our guests be more contented!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Pau-Puk-Keewis</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Then the handsome Pau-Puk-Keewis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He the Idle Yenadizze,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He the merry mischief-maker,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whom the people called the Storm-Fool,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rose among the guests assembled.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Skilled was he in sports and pastimes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the game of quoits and ball play,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In all games of skill and hazard.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He was dressed in shirt of doe-skin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">White and soft, and fringed with ermine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All inwrought with beads of wampum;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He was dressed in deer-skin leggings,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fringed with hedgehog quills and ermine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in moccasins of buckskin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thick with quills and beads embroidered.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On his head were plumes of swan’s down,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On his heels were tails of foxes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In one hand a fan of feathers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a pipe was in the other.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Barred with streaks of red and yellow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Streaks of blue and bright vermilion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shone the face of Pau-Puk-Keewis.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From his forehead fell his tresses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smooth, and parted like a woman’s.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shining bright with oil, and plaited,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hung with braids of scented grasses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As among the guests assembled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the sound of flutes and singing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the sound of drums and voices,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rose the handsome Pau-Puk-Keewis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And began his mystic dances</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Dance, Pau-Puk-Keewis</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">First he danced a solemn measure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Very slow in step and gesture,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In and out among the pine-trees,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the shadows and the sunshine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Treading softly like a panther.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then more swiftly and still swifter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whirling, spinning round in circles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leaping o’er the guests assembled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Eddying round and round the wigwam,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till the leaves went whirling with him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till the dust and wind together</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Swept in eddies round about him.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Then along the sandy margin</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the lake, the Big-Sea-Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On he sped with frenzied gestures.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stamped upon the sand, and tossed it</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wildly in the air around him;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till the wind became a whirlwind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till the sand was blown and sifted</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like great snowdrifts o’er the landscape,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sand Hills of the Nagow Wudjoo!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thus the merry Pau-Puk-Keewis</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Danced his Beggar’s Dance to please them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, returning, sat down laughing</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There among the guests assembled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sat and fanned himself serenely</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his fan of turkey-feathers.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Chibiabos</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Then again sang Chibiabos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang a song of love and longing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In those accents sweet and tender,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In those tones of pensive sadness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang a maiden’s lamentation</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For her lover, her Algonquin.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Song</i>:</p> - -<p class="center"><i>The original of this song may be found in Oneata, p. 15</i>. -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">When I think of my beloved,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! think of my beloved,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When my heart is thinking of him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Ah me! when I parted from him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Round my neck he hung the wampum,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As a pledge, the snow-white wampum,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“I will go with you he whispered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! to your native country;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let me go with you, he whispered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Far away, away, I answered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Very far away, I answered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! is my native country,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“When I looked back to behold him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where we parted, to behold him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After me he still was gazing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“By the tree he still was standing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the fallen tree was standing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That had dropped into the water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“When I think of my beloved,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! think of my beloved,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When my heart is thinking of him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Indian pastimes, games, dances and specialties -should be here introduced. If possible a national Indian dance by a -number of Indians. The Harvest Dance, Ghost Dance or a War Dance, with -colored lights thrown upon the scene and soft music behind scenes, -forming tableaux during dances and before the curtain falls.</i></p> - -<p class="f150 space-above2"><i>CURTAIN.</i></p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">ACT V.<br />FAMINE, FEVER AND<br /> MINNEHAHA’S DEATH.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Forest and Lake, same as Act IV, but WINTER. -Interior of Nokomis’ Tepee. Present, Hiawatha, Nokomis and Minnehaha -all of whose appearance indicate starvation and great suffering. Fever -and Famine, the ghosts, two tall, slim girls, with white, haggard -faces, dressed entirely in black drapery with no lines to break -effect.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha: (with great depth of feeling.)</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O this long and dreary Winter</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O this cold and cruel Winter!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ever thicker, thicker, thicker</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grows the ice on lake and river,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ever deeper, deeper, deeper</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Falls the snow o’er all the landscape,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Falls the covering snow, and drifting</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the forest, round the village,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Hardly from his buried wigwam</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Can the hunter force a passage;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With my mittens and my snowshoes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Vainly walked I through the forest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sought for bird or beast and found none,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saw no track of deer or rabbit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the snow beheld no footprints,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the ghastly, gleaming forest</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fell, and could not rise from weakness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Almost perished there from cold and hunger.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O the famine and the fever!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O the wasting of the famine!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O the blasting of the fever!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O the wailing of the children!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O the anguish of the women!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">All the earth is sick and famished;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hungry is the air around them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hungry is the sky above them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the hungry stars in heaven</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like the eyes of wolves glare at them!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span> -<i>Minnehaha, (turning to Hiawatha, reaching out her -hands and piteously beseeching of him:)</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Give me food, O Hiawatha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Give us food, for we are starving,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Give us food, or we must perish.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Fever and Famine</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Then the curtain of the doorway</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From without was slowly lifted;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And two women entered softly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passed the doorway uninvited,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Without word of salutation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Without sign of recognition,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sat down in the farthest corner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crouching low among the shadows.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Very pale and haggard were they,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As they sat there sad and silent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trembling, cowering with the shadows,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sobbing, weeping, wailing.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha, Softly</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They are famished;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let them do what best delights them;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let them eat, for they are famished.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, musingly to himself</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Who are they?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What strange guests has Minnehaha?</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, to Fever and Famine</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I bid you welcome</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To my lodge, to my fireside;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O guests! why is it</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That your hearts are so afflicted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That you sob so in the sunlight?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Has perchance the old Nokomis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Has my wife, my Minnehaha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ever wronged or grieved you by unkindness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ever failed in hospitable duties?</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Fever and Famine</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">We are ghosts of the departed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Souls of those who once were with you.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hither have we come to try you.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These are corpses clad in garments,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These are ghosts that come to haunt you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the kingdom of Ponemah,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the land of the Hereafter!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cries of grief and lamentation</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Reach us in the Blessed Islands;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cries of anguish from the living,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Calling back their friends departed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sadden us with useless sorrow.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Therefore have we come to try you;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No one knows us, no one heeds us.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We are but a burden to you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And we see that the departed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have no place among the living.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Think of this, O Hiawatha!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Speak of it to all the people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That henceforward and forever</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They no more with lamentations</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sadden the souls of the departed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Islands of the Blessed.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Do not lay such heavy burdens</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the graves of those you bury.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, noble Hiawatha!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We have put you to the trial,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the proof have put your patience,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the insult of our presence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By the outrage of our actions.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We have found you great and noble,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faint not in the greater trial,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faint not in the hardest struggle.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span></p> -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Fever and Famine, with haggard and hollow eyes, -turn toward and approach Minnehaha, meanwhile Hiawatha, -Nokomis and Minnehaha trying to ward them off.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Famine</i>,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Behold me!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I am Famine, Bukadawin!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Fever</i>,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Behold me!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I am Fever, Ahkosewin!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And the lovely Minnehaha</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shuddered as they looked upon her,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shuddered at the words they uttered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lay down on her bed in silence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hid her face but made no answer;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lay there trembling, Freezing, burning</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the looks they cast upon her,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the fearful words they uttered.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha, first preparing for journey</i>,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Wrapped in furs and armed for hunting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his mighty bow of ash-tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his quiver full of arrows,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his mittens, Minjekahwun,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Forth into the empty forest</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rushed the maddened Hiawatha;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In his heart was deadly sorrow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In his face a stony firmness;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On his brow the sweat of anguish</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Started, but it froze and fell not.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into the vast and vacant forest</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On his snowshoes strode he forward.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Scene shifts, showing Hiawatha in a dense -forest, with trees covered with snow and ice, hunting food for -Minnehaha, becoming discouraged, he sits down on a log or rock, ponders -and talks to himself.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, despondently, ruminating</i>,</p> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p> -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lo! how all things fade and perish!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the memory of the old men</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pass away the great traditions,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">On the grave-posts of our fathers</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are no signs, no figures painted;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who are in those graves we know not,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Only know they are our fathers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of what kith they are and kindred,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From what old, ancestral Totem,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be it Eagle, Bear or Beaver,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They descended, this we know not,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Only know they are our fathers.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Face to face we speak together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But we cannot speak when absent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cannot send our voices from us</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the friends that dwell afar off;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cannot send a secret message,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the bearer learns our secret,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May pervert it, may betray it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May reveal it unto others.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">’Twas through this forest, dark and gloomy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the balmy days of summer</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That I brought my bride, Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the land of the Dakotahs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through this forest, bleak and frozen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brought my moonlight, starlight, firelight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brought the sunshine of my people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Minnehaha, Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Handsomest of all the women</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the land of the Dacotahs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the land of handsome women.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When she followed me, her husband.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Buries his head in his hands, then rising, -stretching his hands toward Heaven with head uplifted cries aloud with -great feeling.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">“Gitche Manitou, the Mighty!”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In this bitter hour of anguish,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Give your children food, O father!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Give us food, or we must perish!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Give me food for Minnehaha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For my dying Minnehaha!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Through the far-resounding forest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the forest vast and vacant</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rang that cry of desolation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But there came no other answer</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Than the echo of his crying,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Than the echo of the woodlands.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Echo.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">Minnehaha! Minnehaha! Ha! Ha!</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha disappears in the forest looking for game.</i></p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Scene changes showing the interior of the -tepee where Minnehaha lies sick and dying. Fever sitting at her head, -Famine at her feet, both staring at her. Old Nokomis sitting at the -back of the couch, watching over and caring for her with maternal love -and pity.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha, feebly</i>,</p> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>To Fever and Famine</i>.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To-morrow</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is the last day of my conflict,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is the last day of my fasting.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You will conquer and o’ercome me;</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>Turning to Nokomis, pathetically</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dear old Nokomis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Make a bed for me to lie in,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the rain may fall upon me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the sun may come and warm me;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lay me in the earth, and make it</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soft and loose and light above me.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Let no hand disturb my slumber,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Only come yourself to watch me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till I wake, and start, and quicken,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till I leap into the sunshine.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span></p> -<p class="big-indent"><i>After a silence.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! think of my beloved,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the bleak and frozen forest</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My heart is thinking of him.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>Another silence.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Far away, away,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Very far away,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ah me! is my native country.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>Half raising herself and speaking wildly</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Hark! I hear a rushing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hear a roaring and a rushing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hear the Falls of Minnehaha</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Calling to me from a distance!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis, soothingly</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">No, no, my child!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Tis only the night-wind in the pine-trees!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha, deliriously, pointing</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Look! I see my father</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Standing lonely at his doorway,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beckoning to me from his wigwam</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the land of the Dakotahs!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">No, no, my child!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span></p> - -<p class="fontsize_120 big-indent">’Tis only the smoke, that waves and beckons!</p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Minnehaha, wildly, raving</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Ah! The eyes of Pauguk</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Glare upon me in the darkness,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I can feel his icy fingers</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Clasping mine amid the darkness!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha! Hiawatha!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Shrieking loudly and falls back dead.</i></p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Fever and Famine at Minnehaha’s death, glide -out, Nokomis changes position taking a seat at her feet, then rocking -back and forth wails and moans.</i></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Wahonowin! Wahonowin!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would that I had perished for you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would that I were dead as you are!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wahonowin! Wahonowin!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Ah! why do the living,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lay such heavy burdens on us!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Better were it to go naked,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Better were it to go fasting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Than to bear such heavy burdens</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On our long and weary journey!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O that I were dead!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O that I were dead, as thou art?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No more work, and no more weeping,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wahonowin! Wahonowin!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>During this scene a low, soft dirge should -be played behind the scenes. Indians are to be seen peeping from -behind trees and rocks, some after the death coming to look into the -wigwam.</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span></p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Indian chiefs, wailing and shaking their -medicine-pouches over the head of Minnehaha.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Hi-au-ha!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Way-ha-way!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She has gone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the land of ghosts and shadows.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hi-au-ha!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Way-ha-way!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Hiawatha rushed into the wigwam,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saw the old Nokomis slowly</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rocking to and fro and moaning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saw his lovely Minnehaha</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lying dead and cold before him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And his bursting heart within him</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Uttered such a cry of Anguish,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the forest moaned and shuddered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the very stars in heaven</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shook and trembled with his anguish.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha, astounded, shocked, then mournfully.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dead out of the empty heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dead among the starving people,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>Calling to Heaven, despairingly</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Master of Life!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Must our lives depend on these things?</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>Moans, cries, then softly murmurs.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ah, showain nemeshin, Nosa!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pity, pity me, my father!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>Pathetically beseeching Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O! my Minnehaha; O, my Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Do not leave me thus;</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">You were my moonlight, starlight, firelight</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You were the sunshine of my life,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>Whispering to her in her slumbers</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Though you are far from me</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the land of Sleep and Silence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Still the voice of love should reach you!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis, sorrowfully, resignedly</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">She is dead, the Laughing Water!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She the dearest of all creatures!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She has gone from us forever,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She has moved a little nearer</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Master of all life,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Master of all sunshine!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She has gone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the regions of the home-wind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the Northwest wind Keewaydin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Islands of the Blessed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the kingdom of Ponemah,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the land of the Hereafter!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha, sitting down, looking lovingly and -mournfully at her meditates</i>,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh! those willing feet, that never</div> - <div class="verse indent0">More will lightly run to meet me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Never more will lightly follow.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Then he sat down, still and speechless</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On the bed of Minnehaha</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the head of Laughing Water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if in a swoon he sat there,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Speechless, motionless, unconscious.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span></p> -<p class="neg-indent"><i>After awhile, rising, he goes back of the -couch, thus standing, looks down upon her, saying with sorrow and deep -pathos</i>,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Farewell! Minnehaha!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, O my Laughing Water!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All my heart is buried with you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All my thoughts go onward with you!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come not back again to labor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come not back again to suffer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the Famine and the Fever,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wear the heart and waste the body.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soon my task will be completed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soon your footsteps I shall follow</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Islands of the Blessed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Kingdom of Ponemah,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the Land of the Hereafter!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>A reproduction of an Indian death scene and an -Indian funeral could here be given. Soft music behind scenes. Colored -lights should be thrown upon the scene making a very effective tableau, -showing interior of the tepee with Indians seen scattered here and -there outside in the wintry forest.</i></p> - -<p class="f150 space-above2"><i>CURTAIN.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">ACT VI.<br />HIAWATHA’S DEPARTURE.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150"><i>Scenery</i>:</p> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Shore of the lake with a forest on its margin. -A peaceful quiet summer scene. In the distance Indian tents, and nearer -the tepee of Nokomis. Indians scattered here and there, some making a -birch bark canoe in true Ojibway fashion, others shooting at target -and indulging in Indian pastimes. Hiawatha standing on the lake shore. -Here can be given a transformation and spectacular scene and tableaux, -showing Minnehaha in the distance as an angel and hovering o’er them. -Or, the following spectacular</i>—Suddenly in the distance soft low -sweet music is heard (by stringed instruments behind the scenes), and -across the lake through a rift in the sky is seen a bright heavenly -light, growing brighter and brighter, then an object is seen growing -more and more distinct as the music grows louder, the object draws -nearer and the light brighter, and as the object comes into view it is -discovered to be a birch bark canoe gliding toward them. In the canoe -is Minnehaha dressed as an angel and using paddle. The soft sweet music -grows nearer and louder, and the halo of light surrounding her brighter -as the canoe approaches. The Indians stop their various pursuits -and stand in attitudes of astonishment watching the canoe approach. -Hiawatha, stepping forward to the margin of the lake when Minnehaha is -first seen, stands shading his eyes, expectantly watching and waiting. -Nokomis also comes forth from her tepee. Minnehaha beckons to Hiawatha. -As she approaches them Hiawatha recognizing her, steps forward, close -to the waters edge, and with hands extended and a smile of joy and -triumph, and a look of exultation waits. As the boat stops close to -shore and Minnehaha again beckons to him, he apparently hesitates -between her and leaving his people, then again turns to her, with -exultation, hope, joy and deep feeling.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span></p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh, my angel, Minnehaha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Long have I been waiting for you!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Youth is lovely, age is lonely,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Youth is fiery, age is frosty;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You bring back the days departed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You bring back my youth of passion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O my beautiful Laughing Water</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My lovely wife, my Minnehaha.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="neg-indent"><i>Hiawatha turns first to Nokomis and then to his -people, as though loth to leave them. Then, again -looking at Minnehaha, who motions to him smilingly</i>:</p> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Minnehaha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O’er the water, flying,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the shining mist of morning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Comes a birch canoe with paddles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rising, sinking on the water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dripping, flashing in the sunshine;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O’er the water floating, flying,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Something in the hazy distance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Something in the mists of morning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loomed and lifted from the water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now seemed floating, now seemed flying,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Coming nearer, nearer, nearer.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Act, Hiawatha</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From the brow of Hiawatha</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gone was every trace of sorrow.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As the fog from off the water,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As the mist from off the meadow.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With a smile of joy and triumph,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With a look of exultation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As of one who in a vision</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sees what is to be, but is not,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stood and waited Hiawatha.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And the noble Hiawatha,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his hands aloft extended,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Held aloft in sign of welcome,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Waited, full of exultation.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span></p> -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, to Nokomis, tenderly</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">I am going, O Nokomis,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On a long and distant journey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the portals of the Sunset,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the regions of the home-wind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the Northwest wind, Keewaydin.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>Motioning to his people.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In your watch and ward I leave them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">See that never harm comes near them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">See that never fear molests them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Never danger nor suspicion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Never want of food nor shelter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the lodge of Hiawatha.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Nokomis, sobbing.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, O Hiawatha!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, my child, my noble Hiawatha.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Hiawatha, turning to Indians</i>:</p> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span></p> -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Gitche Manitou, the Mighty,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Showed me in my vision,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the secrets of the future,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the distant days that shall be.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I beheld the westward marches</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the unknown crowded nations.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the land was full of people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Restless, struggling, toiling, striving,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Speaking many tongues, yet feeling</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But one heart-beat in their bosoms.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In our woodlands rang their axes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smoked their towns in all our valleys,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Over all the lakes and rivers</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rushed their great canoes of thunder.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Then a darker, drearier vision</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Passed before me, vague and cloud-like:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I beheld our nation scattered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All forgetful of my counsels.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There are great men, I have known such,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whom their own people understand not,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whom they even make a jest of.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>Stepping into canoe and drifting away.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">I am going, O my people,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On a long and distant journey;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Many moons and many winters</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will have come and will have vanished,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ere again I meet you.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="fontsize_150 space-above1"><i>Indian Chiefs</i>:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">We have listened to your message,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We have heard your words of wisdom,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We will think on what you tell us.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Farewell, O Hiawatha!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="big-indent"><i>All Indians, sorrowfully, watching and waving adieu.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container fontsize_120"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, Hiawatha, the beloved!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Farewell, forever! 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