The beavers’ hides their silvery coats displayed;

And here and there were antlers, from the brow

Of bounding buck, around the room arrayed;

And also, hung among the hunter’s gear,

The dusky haunches of the moose and deer.

LXXVIII.

Hard-by the blazing hearth, raised from the ground

Three braided pallets stood, with furs bespread,

Where once red Waban, wife and child had found

The humble settle, and still humbler bed;