Was scantly by his tawny hue concealed.

XXXII.

At last he said, “My brother doubtless knows—

He has a book which his Great Spirit wrote:

Brave were my fathers, yet did they repose

With hope in Chepian, and his aid besought

When forth they marched to shed the blood of foes;

But maybe they, like Waban, never thought

That they were cowards, when they fiercely prayed