...Larch-Tree, Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework. " Give me of your balm, O Fir-Tree ! Of your balsam and your resin, So to...not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir- Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,...

...roots, O Tamarack ! Of your -fibrous roots, O Larch-Tree! My canoe to bind together, So to bind the ends together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels,...

...larch-tree, Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework. '•Give me of your balm, O Fir-Tree! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the s«am<' together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me !" And the fir-tree, tall...

...Larch-Tree , Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework. " Give me of your balm , O Fir-Tree ! Of your balsam and your resin , So to close the seams together That the water may not entet , That the river may not wet me | " And the Fir-Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its...

...I shaped them, Of your fibrous roots, O LarchTree ! My canoe to bind together, So to bind the ends together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels,...

...Hiawatha killed his first roebuck, when " like a wasp it buzzed and stung him ;" the Fir- Tree that, tall and sombre, " sobbed through all its robes of darkness, rattled like a shore with pebbles ;" the squirrel sitting on the bows of the canoe, with tail erected, while "in his fur the breeze of...

...strong and pliant branches, My canoe to make more steady, Make more strong and firm beneath me."— " That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me." Thus far the verse of the two poems — rhymeless trochaic dimeter with Oriental repetitions — is...

...sewed the bark together, . Bound it closely to the framework. " Give me of your balm, O Fir Tree ! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams...not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,...

...Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework. " Give me of your balm, O Fir- Tree ! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams...not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir- Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,...

...together. " Give me of your roots, O Tamarack ! Of your fibrous roots, O Larch Tree ! My canoe to bind together, That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me." And the Larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels,...