StoryTitle("caps", "Hiawatha's Childhood ") ?>
SubTitle("caps", "The Home of Hiawatha ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(113, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the shining Big-Sea-Water, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dark behind it rose the forest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rose the black and gloomy pine trees, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rose the firs with cones upon them; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bright before it beat the water,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beat the clear and sunny water, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There the wrinkled old Nokomis ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nursed the little Hiawatha, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rocked him in his linden cradle, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bedded soft in moss and rushes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Safely bound with reindeer sinews; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stilled his fretful wail by saying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Hush! the Naked Bear will hear thee!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lulled him into slumber, singing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Ewa-yea! my little owlet!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is this, that lights the wigwam? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With his great eyes lights the wigwam? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ewa-yea! my little owlet!\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "The Stars") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(114, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Many things Nokomis taught him ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the stars that shine in heaven; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Showed him Ishkoodah, the comet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ishkoodah, with fiery tresses;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Showed the Death Dance of the spirits, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Warriors with their plumes and war clubs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flaring far away to northward", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the frosty nights of Winter", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Showed the broad white road in heaven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pathway of the ghosts, the shadows, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Running straight across the heavens, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Crowded with the ghosts, the shadows.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "The Firefly") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At the door on summer evenings ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sat the little Hiawatha;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heard the whispering of the pine trees, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heard the lapping of the waters, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sounds of music, words of wonder; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Minne-wawa!\" said the pine trees, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Mudway-aushka!\" said the water.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Saw the firefly, Wah-wah-taysee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flitting through the dusk of evening, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the twinkle of its candle ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lighting up the brakes and bushes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he sang the song of children, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sang the song Nokomis taught him", "") ?>
PagePoem(115, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Wah-wah-taysee, little firefly, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little, flitting, white-fire insect, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little, dancing, white-fire creature, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Light me with your little candle, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ere upon my bed I lay me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ere in sleep I close my eyelids!\" ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "The Lady in The Moon ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Saw the moon rise from the water ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rippling, rounding from the water, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Saw the flecks and shadows on it, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whispered, \"What is that, Nokomis?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the good Nokomis answered ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Once a warrior, very angry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seized his grandmother, and threw her ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up into the sky at midnight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Right against the moon he threw her; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'T is her body that you see there.\" ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "The Rainbow") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Saw the rainbow in the heaven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the eastern sky, the rainbow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whispered, \"What is that, Nokomis?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the good Nokomis answered:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"'T is the heaven of flowers you see there; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the wild flowers of the forest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the lilies of the prairie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When on earth they fade and perish, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blossom in that heaven above us.\" ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "Hiawatha's Chickens") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When he heard the owls at midnight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hooting, laughing in the forest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"What is that?\" he cried in terror, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"What is that,\" he said, \"Nokomis?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the good Nokomis answered; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"That is but the owl and owlet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Talking in their native language, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Talking, scolding at each other.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then the little Hiawatha ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Learned of every bird its language, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Learned their names and all their secrets, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How they built their nests in Summer, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where they hid themselves in Winter, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Talked with them whene'er he met them, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Called them \"Hiawatha's Chickens.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "Hiawatha's Brothers") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of all beasts he learned the language, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Learned their names and all their secrets, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the beavers built their lodges, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the squirrels hid their acorns, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the reindeer ran so swiftly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why the rabbit was so timid,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Talked with them whene'er he met them, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Called them \"Hiawatha's Brothers.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>