LAFLBSCHE] EITE OF VIGIL FREE TRANSLATION. 201 



I shall go to see, I shall go to see, 

 The broad leaves waving in the winds. 



6. 



I shall go to see, I shall go. to see, 



The ears that overhang and cross each other. 



7. 



I shall go to see, I shall go to see. 



The ears that are ripe and read}' to pluck. 



I shall go to see, I shall go to see. 



The tall stalks to be broken to reach the ears. 



I shall go to see, I shall go to see. 

 The blossoms that make gray the field. 



10. 



I shall go to see, I shall go to see, 



The ears that will cause smoke to rise from my house. 



11. 



I shall go to see, I shall go to see, 



The ears that will bring joy to my house. 



12. 



I shall go to see, I shall go to see. 



The day of fruition, the day of harvest. 



The fourth and last of the corn songs given in this group repre- 

 sents the woman as hastening to the field, at the border of which she 

 pauses and views the ground where she made footprints, sacred and 

 mysterious, then being seized with joy as she beholds the result of her 

 labor and sees the ears of ripening corn that cross each other in pro- 

 fusion, promising a rich harvest for her people. She is also repre- 

 sented as dehghting in the beauty of the broad field, gray with 

 blossoms that lie before her. 



A free translation of two lines from each stanza will suffice to give 

 the meaning, as all the other lines are repetitions and vocables. 



