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Stained the leaves with red and yellow ; 

 He it was who sent the snow-flakes, 

 Sifting, hissing through the forest, 

 Froze the ponds, the lakes, the rivers, 

 Drove the loon and sea-gull southward- 

 Drove the cormorant and curlew 

 To their nests of sedge and sea-tang 

 In the realms of Shawondasee. 

 Shawondasee, fat and lazy, 

 Had his dwelling far to southward, 

 In the drowsy, dreamy sunshine, 

 In the never-ending summer. 

 He it was who sent the wood-birds. 

 Sent the robin, the Opechee, 

 Sent the bluebird, the Owaissa, 

 Sent the Shawshaw, sent the swallow, 



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