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trate the deep significance of the ideas which the Indian holds 

 regarding his relations to the Great Spirit of the Universe, 

 and of the esteem with which he views the peace-pipe, which 

 in the words of Catlin "has shed its thrilling fumes over 

 the land, and soothed the fury of the relentless savage." 

 Longfellow, in the opening of his poem, says : 



"Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, 

 Who have faith in God and Nature, 

 Who believe that in all ages 

 Every human heart is human, 

 That in even savage bosoms 

 There are longings, yearnings, strivings, 

 For the good they comprehend not, 

 That the feeble hands and helpless, 

 Groping blindly in the darkness, 

 Touch God's right hand in that darkness 

 And are lifted up and strengthened ; 

 Listen to this simple story, 

 To the song of Hiawatha. 



He then describes the making of the pipe from the great 

 [Red Pipe-Stone Quarry, as follows : 



" On the Mountains of the Prairie, 

 On the great Red Pipe- Stone Quarry, 

 Gitche Manito, the mighty, 

 He the Master of Life, descending, 

 On the red crags of the quarry 

 Stood erect, and called the nations, 

 Called the tribes of men together. 

 From his foot-prints flowed a river, 

 Leaped into the light of morning, 

 O'er the precipice plunging downward 

 Gleamed like Ishkoodah, the comet. 

 And the Spirit stooping earthward, 

 With his finger on the meadow 

 Traced a winding pathway for it, 

 Saying to it, * Run in this way !' 



" From the red stone of the quarry 

 With his hand he broke a fragment, 

 Moulded it into a pipe-head, 

 Shaped and fashioned it with figures j 

 From the margin of the river 

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