Father, courage will be given
In that awful hour supreme,
When all earth’s ties are riven,
And I float down death’s dark stream.
Both Voices.
Yes, courage not to falter
In the trial now so nigh,
But, as victim on the altar,
A Sachem’s daughter die.
IX.
OREIKA.
One lingering, last, farewell embrace I take!
MINAHITA.
Yes, one for thine and one for Osseo’s sake.
OREIKA.
How solace him beneath his trial sore?