XXI.

“Brother, I know that all these lands are thine,

These rolling rivers, and these waving trees,—

From the Great Spirit came the gift divine;

And who would trespass upon boons like these?

I would take nothing, if the power were mine,

Of all thy lands, lest it should Him displease;

But for just meed shouldst thou some part resign,

Would the Great Spirit blame the deed benign?”

[XXII.]