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P0NAS3 AND WOWAN; 
 
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 How oft, deat- James, upon that shored 
 
 Where Ottawa's wild rapids roar 
 
 We watched each wave which seemed 
 
 to fly 
 From crag to crag, then passed us by, 
 Still hurrying on wilh m'ght and main, 
 Though gone yet still the same again ; 
 As if Eternity had given 
 Some emblem here this side of Heaven 
 TPo warn poor mortals of that date 
 Of good or ill which must await 
 Our souls when in a future state. 
 *Twas wild delight, dear James, when 
 
 young, 
 To gaze with youth's enlivenino; dreams. 
 Such scenes as these loved Burks sung 
 Was where Dame Nature once had hung 
 Her robe where many an eagle screams 
 And spread its fairy tassels round 
 Till Echo caught the laughing sound 
 
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 Prom rocky hiJIs and streams j 
 
 r '/"^^^^^H eddies madly flew 
 
 ^--d our frail whae bar/cano; 
 Who e ^j^^ ^^^^ ^ 
 
 ^«'f Queen Mab with fairy hand 
 
 ^nd ere the „„ i, T ^^'"'"■°'^e shore 
 We s!f!l "^ '""'' '■'•°™ view 
 
 Where c!,r°*:''^ ""'• ''^^t <=anoe. 
 Teach. '"' '■'""^'"''^ P°o' 
 
 ^ th all h.s arts in Nature's scho I y 
 But now, dear Jamp« f(,o .• . J 
 
 Although such m? ^ '""^ '^ fx-ief 
 
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 Far in the shadowy grove. 
 It seems to take some strange delight 
 To sing its shrill song round at, night 
 Where whispering lovers rove. 
 The wild w.olf howls to hear its scream- 
 But lo ! I see the sun's bright beam 
 In eastern skies once more. 
 Arise, dear James, and as we sail 
 ril tell to you a mournful tale 
 Ere we reach Pembroke shore. 
 
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Canto i\t Jfirst. 
 
 Oh where are those who now couH teU 
 
 Of Indian Chief or bravo who fell 
 
 Three hundred years ago. 
 
 Or who the war-whoop raised on high 
 
 Bener;th this bright Canadian sky 1 
 
 Come tell me if you know. 
 
 *» I can" cried one, an aged man, 
 
 Of palsied Hrab and withered hand, 
 
 " Their graves 1 will you show ; 
 
 Come ! go with me to yonder gla.le.. 
 
 And there beneath the old oak shaci^j 
 
 Lie bones bleachM white like snow, 
 
 Tradition tells", the old man said, 
 
 " Of this^Brave here, and how he bled ; 
 
 He was a warrior firm and true 
 
 As e'er loved i^aid or bow-string drew-— 
 
 He could a hundred yards, I hear, 
 
 B ng down a moose or fallow deer ; 
 
 And his pure soul they ne'er could bribe- 
 
 PoNAss was loved by all the tribe. 
 
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 '" "''^1""""' O'er with Sol's l,„ght 
 beam. 
 
 No darker ray to it was given 
 
 !"'^"""'«"'y^P«-hot from Heaven, 
 H" >va. the first who could espy 
 
 A ""king foe With his dark eye, 
 ^»<' than With „„,,,„„^^^,j 
 
 f/l ^"''•''''"ioo forth he sprung 
 
 Amidst the dark and mortal strife 
 
 Wuh Tomahawk and scalping knife. 
 
 And I have heard>y Father say 
 Tlu. twenty ,op.k„,,,.i„^' 
 
 I" '"""Ph he hath borne away. 
 
 ^••^ here the Old man ,ave a Sigh 
 And tears ,„d„p,^^„ 
 
 onndmn's war, his grief or toils- 
 Alas that e'eM had to (ell 
 
 Those Wicked scene, by wood or dell ; 
 They m.y„o:;piease the ear too well. 
 
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 lint to renew again my strain . 
 PoNAss was lov'd throughoniikhe plain 
 By lovely squaw or huntiaig swain. 
 WovvAN was she a pretty maid 
 Who always on her lov^ staid ; 
 When on o hunting tour they'd go 
 In winter wilds on frozen snow, 
 'Twas joy to see her dark loose hair 
 Broad floating on the winter's air — 
 With timid look and aspect mild 
 She'd gaze on Ponass like a child, 
 And then with Mj^sic's magic art 
 She'd cheer his lonely drooping heart. 
 There ne'er was Indian qiieen or king 
 Had sweeter voice than her^ sing, 
 And all the learning e'er she knew 
 Was how to sew the bark canoe, 
 Or set the traps for grizzly bears 
 And artful fox or timid hares. 
 She well knew how those gyves to mat 
 Or skim across the deep blue lake : 
 Those were her thoughts from morn 
 
 night, 
 And please Ponass then all was^right ; 
 Yet still there was some unknown sorrow, 
 Perhaps to-day, may be to-morrow, 
 
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 f 7" '''""«'' ^'W w», l,»ppy here, 
 And w«h.d r„, „,„g,., ,„^ ^^^^^ _^ 
 
 When beast and bird ,e.ire<l ,0 re«t 
 ««'<f lay his head on Wowan's breast 
 
 And sing to her of old Romance, 
 W ludmn wars, or Indian .■anoe 
 
 No matter whether joy or sorro^v 
 They ne'er looked forward ,ill to-morrow. 
 But sweet contentment declced their cot 
 And both were happy with .heir lot : 
 Their Winter camp was lined wi.h.n 
 With many.a deer and racoon skm, 
 ^h.chPona,s placed wiihcare and grace. 
 
 Thfllgh snow was piled around .hem deep 
 They both hy down a while ,o sleep. 
 
 Nor never dreamed of human cares 
 W hich steal upon us unawares, 
 But March her mantle round did fling 
 
 And showed the flowers of early spring. 
 Cold w,„,er had kept down their head 
 
 But Springaroused them from the dead, 
 The gush offountains that were still, 
 
 Now loose are rushing from each hill. 
 Just like the wicked Mormon, sin. 
 
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 When e'er to eonfess he begins 
 Those secret vices kept in bond 
 Break forfh like water from a pond, 
 Which was bound over all with ice 
 /Vnd tells them all but one dark vice, 
 But I will not in verse it name 
 I would put their follower? to shame, 
 But to be candid true and plain 
 And sing the joys of Spring again 
 Of Ponass and his own dear maid, 
 As through the shady groves they strayed, 
 He smoked his pipe and thus began 
 
 The history of his dear Wowan— 
 
 The neighboring maids ne'er showM her 
 
 scorn 
 Because she was so nobly born ; 
 Her father on his head did wear 
 A crown wrought well with human hair 
 Which he had taken from the dead 
 Just as the vital spark had fled, 
 And many a maiden looked with grief 
 To see such toys upou the chief — 
 For well they knew sucn warlike toys 
 Brought sorrows home instead of joys. 
 His coat wa$ of a changing hue 
 With curious beads of green and blue, 
 His nether garments long and wide 
 
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 Was tied tL'"*''" his skiu 
 
 Which wera'alJ „ """ ^'"■'*' 
 
 His hunting g oundT ^'''"'""'«- 
 
 And «,eli ffnf^tt'ir '"^^ "'"' ^'<<« 
 
 W.h«„,hand.fe„ 1:7 ''■'''' 
 
 " The home of !„" "" "'«'»'» « '«te 
 
 ^3eve.paddwir r."- 
 To fight on river. lafce or Cd' 
 
 W-» ^P«ad through Cari"°" "°"'" 
 
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 ^ n,« '^^^^n to run 
 
 ^»d on its surface conMK^' 
 
 Some niero<rlvl ! ^^ '^^« 
 m, ; . ^^Og^yphics blue anJ « 
 
 1 /le oid man shnni • , ^'^^»' 
 
 ^J^en this dark ' "^ ^^^^'"^ ^'^' 
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 But wheii the fire wRich once was bright 
 
 Had flushed his cheek and cleared his sight, 
 
 He threw the roll of burch bark down 
 
 And stuck an arrow in the ground, 
 
 So then once more you could descry 
 
 The flash of anger in his eye; 
 
 He summoned all his sturdy band, 
 
 They were all armed to a man, 
 
 So then he gave a sterner scowl 
 
 And filled the Callumetts big Bowl 
 
 "With noxious and loathsome weed, 
 
 And bid those drink who dared to bleed ; 
 
 So now all round the distant- glen 
 
 You could discern six hundred men , 
 
 Well armed they were from head to toe 
 
 With Tomahawk and good cross-bow, 
 
 To every hundred men a man 
 
 "Was chosen well throughout the land. 
 
 Amongst those Chiefs with aspect stern 
 
 One noble youth you could discern, 
 
 The night was dark, no star did show 
 
 Save when the fire-fly's lamp did glow ; 
 
 And then upon each sable face 
 
 Strange marks of valor you might trace ; 
 
 Some were asleep, but very few, 
 
 Some prayed u::ito the Manitou*, 
 
 That after death they would be driven 
 
 
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 A«seen fa° off' ^T"?"^'^ ''««'» 
 2!^''hhMeo3;i^'^'"™'"'''e«o«h, 
 
 ^"'''«''t7St'^<'-'<' he'd Mop 
 
 ^hose savage wa„n 'wri,'"'" 
 
 ^»y yet amVeM:-' "^y P°"end 
 A"'' "use some JWr «'""'«'"'; 
 
 P" 'hey arnve'wrrt.^""" '"""«"" 
 ^"■i if we can't 11 '^'"•'^'«n's God-. 
 
 ^«' dark oblivionTn '''""» 
 
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 JuBt pen a pack of wolves, and when 
 Kept without food up in a den 
 For six long days, and then let go 
 Upon a flock of sheep below. 
 No thundering cannons here did roJ^i 
 I'heir.'deadly shout from shore lo/fifibre. 
 But nimbly as the fleetest roe 
 Behind a tree each lurking foe 
 "Was seen to spy, to lurk, and prance, 
 To charge the bow and couch the lance. 
 Such hideous noise and wild despair 
 Rose forth upon the morning's air 
 As ne'er was seen in wood or dell, 
 Such scenes were only fit for Hell. 
 Each savage foe did shift^his place, 
 And now they meet each face to face j 
 Their bows and arrows are thrown by, 
 Which once with deadly aim did fly. 
 And nearer and more near the crash 
 Of sculls and bones forth forth they dash 
 With Indian savage might and main 
 Till full ihreerhundred of the slain 
 Shall never ri&e to|fight again. 
 Their corpses streaming on Ihe^shore 
 From"ears and nose and every pore 
 Send^forth'a liquidlstream of gore. 
 • But where is Ponass all this day V 
 Some warrior chief was heard to say, 
 «See how his tribe oil rim away 
 
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 T'il all at onceThl,''' /" '" ""^ 
 
 Pon'Just eve ^^"'" "■='"'»*'• 
 
 Had With a Kt;?"""^""' 
 The fn,.? ^'J" wessage run : 
 
 B'lt wen he knew th'^'""'" "«""". 
 
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 His friend., .. Ji. ''°"' "a" hear- 
 
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 Now tell me what will please the mind 
 Of those whom fate hath blighted 1 
 To tell the Muse is oft inclined 
 Where they some happy scenes may find, 
 Yet still they are sihort-sighted, 
 Not all the gems the mountain yiclos, 
 Nor all the ficagrance of the fields, 
 Till in death they are united. 
 But onward still Ponass he hits, 
 'Mongst wounded men and dismal cries, 
 Till on the spot where he last night 
 Had taken such untimely flight, 
 He paused a little now for breath 
 And gazed around, but all was death. 
 Then sitting down behind a mound 
 The tears come trickling to the grotind j 
 Such tear- worn lines you ne'er cotild ti^ce 
 Before upon that manly face- 
 Such noble looks were never given 
 To vulgar souls this side of Heaven. 
 
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 *"' where are all .►.„ 
 
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 ^"<l 'hen a fearL , '""*'' ''" bM. 
 
 Vpon that fieid ofrll '^* *<' '^'«<> 
 Where death hV/t! '*''''''''■'«'' 
 
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 The message which he was to bring, 
 
 But^where'was Wowan and the King— 
 
 Just like the maiden when a^eep, 
 
 BriElit visions o'er her senses creep 
 And bring her back to Childhood's hours, 
 
 When she had^played among the bowers i 
 But when the morning light appears 
 Those happy days of younger years 
 Are fled, and truth begins to beam 
 That all was nothing but a dream- 
 And many a sigh and many a loo.s 
 Ponass cast on the gury^ling brook 
 That ran in playful eddies by, 
 Unconscious of his troubled sigh, 
 
 As smoothly o'er its pebbly bed 
 Its winding course it gently sped 
 
 Through many a shady windmg glade 
 Until it met the high cascade, 
 Then o'er the rocks it spread in foam 
 And left the timid eye to roam, 
 •Whilst it in joyful madness crumbled 
 The hardest rocks as down it tumbled. 
 Bu* when it reached the level shore 
 It murmured gently as before. 
 Ponass though fierce as tiger Wild, 
 
 Yet still he was Dame Nature's child, 
 And well could rhyme on stream or nil 
 With deep, profound, poetic skill. 
 But now his only thoughts were bent 
 
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 Were wl.?^ ^^ ''' ^' P"**^^. 
 
 It never once did cro^, h 
 
 O?" ''' '"'««'• »»J that full well 
 Of every mca„,at,oa or spell ' 
 
 His kaowleUge was bv „T 
 Of every poifonoTwe'e "ITr^ '*=""' 
 
 ^;P^'^^«h»d not long tojiv, 
 
 |S9S--est. 
 
 By living chief or 1 *"""'' ''« *»''' 
 
 ^ s ^-niei, or warrior boM 
 
 No cloud obscured th^ q , V 
 
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 But Ponass watched willi steady eyo 
 
 His course across the deep blue sky. 
 
 And oft did wish he had the skill 
 
 To drag him down behind the hill, 
 
 And leave him nought but sta s above 
 
 Till he would try to find his love ; 
 
 For ne'er did Sun so slowly roil 
 
 To any living, mortal soul. 
 
 But evening grey at last came down 
 
 Wltii sober sweetness on the ground j 
 
 And all was calm, serene and still, 
 
 Naught could be heard but whip-poor-will. 
 
 Such scenes as these, we've oft been told, 
 
 Are dearer to the heart than gold ; 
 
 Yet groves or gold can ne'er impart 
 
 Much pleasure to a drooping heart. 
 
 No leaf did stir, nor breath of wind 
 
 Blew through the vale tha,t night. 
 
 The worn-out hare and hungry hind, 
 
 They thought their foes were far behind 
 
 And slept 'neath the pale star-lit,ht ; 
 
 But the iavage wolf and the bear 
 
 ICept gnashing the teeth in t' "'r head, 
 
 They had risen and left their lair 
 
 By the scent of the tainted dead. 
 
 But oh how short was their repose ! 
 
 They awoke from sleep and heard their foes 
 
 Eat the warrior slain that bled ! 
 
 But there was one that did not sleep — 
 
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 Poiiass his faithful watch did keen, 
 
 Jt was just now the midnight hour, 
 And heavy clouds began to lour, 
 
 J hen Ponass gently glides away 
 7'J^^^^ Cat steals upon its prey, 
 Where all his foes were sleeping sound 
 iheir bows and arrows on the ground 
 Were carelessly all strewn arotmd. 
 -Their upturned faces to the skies, 
 As If cold death had sealed their eves. 
 
 But oh what horrorniet his view " 
 When stiffand cold as lead 
 • Upon the wild flowers there that grew 
 
 Fresh blood-stain drops instead of'dew. 
 Where'er his footsteps tread. 
 
 For here- within this fatal r in-- 
 Lay his dear Wowan, and the King- 
 Alas ! they both are dead ' 
 This was no time lor con^ard fear, 
 
 10 daub his cheeks with childish tears 
 
 Some wild flowers he did gently strw 
 Within a lovely bark canoe, 
 
 And then his precious load he bore 
 Away to yonder distant shore 
 He Jaid them both upon the strand, 
 T^^en turned his boat away from land 
 
 He drew his boat upon a cape, 
 To cause, if need,> quick esckpe. 
 
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 The first thing that brave Ponass done, 
 
 He cut their arrows every one, 
 
 Likewise their bows and Tomahawks, 
 
 Ponais he did them take 
 
 And iunk them many a fathom deep 
 
 Beneath the deep blue lake. 
 
 Their bark canoea were landed dry 
 
 And turned on tht shore. 
 
 He sank them in the river, 
 
 They never saw them more. 
 
 So here upon this lonely isle 
 
 With hunger they did wail, 
 
 Just three were left of all this tribe 
 
 To tell the mournful tale. 
 
 He spent nextMay In grief and woe 
 
 With Wo wan and 'the King ; 
 
 Then'he with heart-felt sadness 
 
 A Funeral Song did sing — 
 
 FUNEBAL SONG. 
 
 Ope, dearest, ope, and let me see 
 Those^looks.which were entrancing 
 How beautiful they shone to me , 
 When in the Wigwam dancing ! 
 No other^maid was like to thee 
 With thy lovely dark eyes glancing. 
 
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 CHORUS : 
 Wowan d«ar ! Wowan dear ! oh my dear ! 
 Thou saidst we ne'er would sever. 
 Canst ihou hear? Canst thou hear t Canst thou 
 
 hear? 
 No thy ear3 are closed forever. 
 
 Wake, dearest, wake, and from thee fling 
 Those ties which doth encumber 
 Thy tongue, which so well could sing 
 To mo the sweetest number. 
 Heaven's bells for joy will ring 
 If thou wake from thy slumbep. 
 Chwus-^Wowaa dear, &c. 
 
 He made a grave both long and deep 
 
 And in it placed an arrow, 
 
 Saying * My love died-savage hands 
 
 Will die by mine for sorrow.' 
 
 He stretched them both in burch baik white. 
 
 Woe's me how sad's my Muse 
 
 To tell how Ponass placed their traps, 
 
 Their beads and broad snow-shoes. 
 
 Their grave it now being finished 
 
 Ponass's race was run. 
 
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 He gazed awhile bewildered 
 
 Upon the setting Sun ; 
 
 He laid hia heart upon the shaft 
 
 And pierced his body through ; -' 
 
 Then sank to rest on Wowan's breast 
 
 And bade the world Adieu ! 
 
 They loved on earth when they had breath 
 
 The old man said to me, 
 
 « Their souls are in the spirit land, 
 
 Those are their bones you see. 
 
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