(Literally--little
hill of the spirit.)
[CA] The Welsh name for the robin.
[Illustration: CRYSTAL BAY LAKE MINNETONKA]
[CB] Lodges.
[CC] Wanm-dee--the war-eagle of the Dakotas.
[CD] Lake Superior.
[CE] Pronounced _Yoon-hay-hay_--the exclamation used by Dakota women in
their lament for the dead, and equivalent to "woe-is-me."
BEYOND
White-haired and hoary-bearded, who art thou
That speedest on, albeit bent with age,
Even as a youth that followeth after dreams?
Whence are thy feet, and whither trends thy way?
Stayed not his hurried steps, but as he passed
His low, hoarse answer fell upon the wind:
"Go thou and question yonder mountain-peaks;
Go thou and ask the hoary-heaving main;--
Nay, if thou wilt, the great, globed, silent stars
That sail innumerable the shoreless sea,
And let the eldest answer if he may.
Lo the unnumbered myriad, myriad worlds
Rolling around innumerable suns,
Through all the boundless, bottomless abyss,
Are but as grains of sand upwhirled and flung
By roaring winds and scattered on the sea.
I have beheld them and my hand hath sown.
"Far-twinkling faint through dim, immeasured depths,
Behold Alcyone--a grander sun.
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