Rings through the sky.

Here do we wait thy step,

While soon, for thee,

Bursted the prison bars,

The warrior free!"

[16] This is an allusion to the battles of the gods of the Dacotas. The Thunder (believed to be a bird) is sometimes conquered and cast to the earth by the god of the woods or the god of the waters.


THE FALSE ALARM.

BY MRS. MARY EASTMAN.