130 MAKING THE " PEACE-PIPES." 



Took a long reed for a pipe-stem, 

 With its dark green leaves upon it ; 

 Filled the pipe with bark of willow ; 

 With the bark of the red willow ; 

 Breathed upon the neighboring forest, 

 Made its great boughs chafe together, 

 Till in flame they burst and kindled ; 

 And erect upon the mountains, 

 Gitche Manito, the mighty, 

 Smoked the calumet, the Peace-Pipe, 

 As a signal to the nations." 



PIPE OF PEACE. 



The next verses describe the assembling of the nations at 

 the call of Gitche Manito, who proceeds to speak to hia 

 children words of wisdom and announces that he : 



" ' Will send a prophet to you, 

 A Deliverer of the nations, 

 Who shall guide you and shall teach you, 

 Who shall toil and suffer with you. 

 So you listen to his counsels, 

 You will multiply and prosper ; 

 If his warnings pass unheeded, 

 You will fade away and perish ! 



" * Bathe now in the stream before you, 

 Wash the war-paint from your faces, 

 Wash the blood-stains from your fingers, 

 Bury your war-clubs and your weapons, 

 Break the red stone from this quarry, 

 Mould and make it into Peace-Pipes, 

 Take the reeds that grow beside you, 

 Deck them with your highest feathers, 



