Another Voice
"Let them flee,—the East Gate Keepers—
Whose dead lie still as sleepers!
Let the Canienga fly before our wrath,
Scatter like chaff,
When we Oneidas laugh!
Koué!"
Tahioni
"Holder of Heaven,
And every Chief named in the Great Rite!
Dancers Seven!
And the Eight Thunders plumed in white!
At dawn I was a young man,
Who had seen no enemy die.
But my foe was a deer who ran,
And I struck; and let him lie."
The Screech-owl Dances
"The Mohawk Nation has fled,
But my war-axe sticks in its head!
Koué!"
The Water-snake Dances
"Let the Wild Goose keep to the skies!
Where the Brant alights, he dies!
Koué!"
Thiohero, their Prophetess
"The Lodge poles crack in the East!
The Long House falls.
Who calls the Condolence Feast?
Who calls?"