Ere in sleep you close your eyelids!
ACT III.
HIAWATHA’S WOOING,
TRIBE OF OJIBWAYS.
Scene First.
Hiawatha’s Discussion with Nokomis and Departure.
Scenery:
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.
Description of Hiawatha:
Out of childhood into manhood
Now had grown my Hiawatha.