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The Feast of the Dead 
 
 By Bernard McEvoy 
 
 Price Ten Cents 
 
 TORONTO 
 
 PRINTED BY THE BROWN-8EARLB CO. 
 
 1899 
 
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To David Boyle 
 
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The Feast of the Dead 
 
 " In the Huron Nation territory, south of the Georgian Bay, both singfle 
 and communal graves are met with. The former were probably made pre- 
 paratory to the great Feast of the Dead, when the bones would be removed 
 to a large pit dug on an eminence, and into which were placed sometimes as 
 many as a thousand skeletons— the remains of those who had died during the 
 previous ten or twelve years. Such ossuaries or bone-pits have been found 
 at intervals as far south as the County of Wentworth." — Notes on Primitive 
 Man in Ontario, by David Boyle. 
 
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 Lo, twice five years have passed, and o'er the land, 
 
 Through lodge and village 
 Goes forth a summons that all understand — 
 
 •* Leave hunt and tillage ; 
 Leave bow and arrows ; leave your tomahawks, 
 
 And come, slow marching ; 
 Leave ye your pipes ; leave your sententious talks ; 
 
 Through trees o'er-arching 
 

 Bear ye your ten years' dead, that they may lie 
 
 In proper glory, 
 Where the wind's anthem shall be chanted high 
 
 By pine trees hoary. 
 Now bring the warrior to his sacred bed, 
 
 With all his war gear ; 
 Now bring the hunter and each strong spear head 
 
 That ever tore deer ; 
 Drive from your dead, that ye have laid on high, 
 
 The buzzard swooping ; 
 And bring them here, in this wide grave to he, 
 
 That we are scooping." 
 
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 Then through the arches of the pillared shade. 
 
 Bearing their dead ones. 
 Each dusky tribe a long procession made, 
 
 Led by its head ones ; 
 Chanting they came, and slow ; with rhythmic rune, 
 
 Vaunted their heroes ; 
 There was a pride in that barbaric tune 
 
 Great as was Nero's, 
 As by the side of that wide forest grave 
 
 Hundreds assembled ; 
 For before those to whom they burial gave 
 
 Foemen had trembled ! 
 
Then that funereal bed they richly hned 
 
 With skin of beaver, 
 And rich and trophied fur ; uncouth-designed 
 
 Glories of weaver ; 
 Laid also there, in keeping for the dead, 
 
 Vessels domestic, 
 And the rude weapons of the warrior dread — 
 
 Warrior majestic. 
 Those that he had in life ; placing for use 
 
 In the Hereafter, 
 The things of which the mighty praise profuse 
 
 Had rung to rafter; 
 Arrows that had upon the grassy plain 
 
 Buffalo tumbled ; 
 Axes 'neath which the foeman erst was fain 
 
 Prone to lie humbled; 
 The string of wampum, and the carven pipe 
 
 Reached from the worn thatch, 
 Strange things of polished bone, the yellow-ripe 
 
 Cobs from the corn-patch. 
 
 Then laid they there in state the warriors' bones, 
 
 With common people's ; 
 There was no muffled peal in solemn tones 
 
 To ring from steeples ; 
 
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 But their wild chant of exultation bade 
 
 To grief defiance, 
 And on the promise of Ponemah made 
 
 Its strong reliance. 
 Then having all, with pine-branch and with sod. 
 
 Their dead immounded, 
 They left them to the watching of their God, 
 
 Forest-surrounded. 
 
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 And we, who in these later decades mourn 
 
 Those who have left us, 
 Should we permit their fame to be forsworn 
 
 If Death bereft us ? 
 Nay ! raise once more the retrospective hymn, 
 
 Their praises singing ; 
 Let memory once again their features limn ; — '' 
 
 Let Fancy, winging 
 Her solemn journey o'er the sequent years, 
 
 Repeat their story; 
 Set forth once more, from Fame's high temple-stairs, 
 
 Their grace and glory. 
 
[show us once more the Warrior's trusty sword, 
 
 The Statesman's sceptre, 
 I And those who o'er their country's weal held ward, 
 
 And ever kept her 
 Four-square to Truth and Right. Bring once again. 
 
 From Time's recesses. 
 The puissant wielders of the mighty pen — 
 
 The world confesses 
 The wreath is still unwithered on their brows. 
 
 From air surrounding 
 Recall the voices that had power to rouse ; 
 
 Then bring, resounding. 
 The songs the Singers sung in days gone by 
 
 With heart upbounding. 
 Strike yet once more the harp of minstrelsy 
 
 Of the great Master, 
 And let us feel once more the deep profound 
 
 Of our disaster. 
 For that no more his hand will sweep the string 
 
 To noble measure ! 
 
 And, last, bring those who loved us, whose deep hearts 
 Knew all our sorrow, 
 
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 Whose touch divinely healed our bitter smarts, 
 
 And each to-morrow 
 Gilded with hope. 
 
 What then ? Bereft we stand, 
 
 And of Death's ravage 
 And the Hereafter, scarce we understand 
 
 More than the savage; 
 But, by this memory-honoured, lordly grave. 
 
 Where they are sleeping, 
 We, for our lost and great, may humbly crave 
 
 Heaven's high keeping ! 
 
 Bernard McEvoy' 
 
 TorontOy July 6thy i8gg. 
 
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