In presenting these specimens of the original words of some of our western warriors, we are permitted to give the annexed versions of them from the pen of one of our most gifted writers.
WAR-SONG—“Pe-nä´ se-wug.”
(From the Algonquin of Schoolcraft.)
BY C. F. HOFFMAN.
I.
Hear not ye their shrill-piping
screams on the air?
Up! Braves for the conflict
prepare ye—prepare!
Aroused from the canebrake,