The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

’T was the women who in Spring-time

Planted the broad fields and fruitful,

Buried in the earth Mondamin;

’T was the women who in Autumn

Stripped the yellow husks of harvest,

Stripped the garments from Mondamin,

Even as Hiawatha taught them.

Once, when all the maize was planted,

Hiawatha, wise and thoughtful,

Spake and said to Minnehaha,