The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hither have we come to try you,

Hither have we come to warn you.

“Cries of grief and lamentation

Reach us in the Blessed Islands;

Cries of anguish from the living,

Calling back their friends departed,

Sadden us with useless sorrow.

Therefore have we come to try you;

No one knows us, no one heeds us.

We are but a burden to you,