Sang the bluebird, the Owaissa,

“Happy are you, Hiawatha,

Having such a wife to love you!”

Sang the robin, the Opechee,

“Happy are you, Laughing Water,

Having such a noble husband!”

From the sky the sun benignant

Looked upon them through the branches,

Saying to them, “O my children,

Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,