Language Through Nature 



"Dark behind it rose the forest" 



Lesson 1 12 



HIAWATHA'S HOME 



BY the shores of Gitche Gumee, 

 By the shining Big-Sea-Water, 

 Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, 

 Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. 

 Dark behind it rose the forest, 

 Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, 

 Rose the firs with cones upon them ; 

 Bright before it beat the water,^ 

 Beat the clean and sunny water, 

 Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. 



