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A free translation of two lines from each stanza will siiffice to 

 give the meaning, as all the other lines are repetitions. 



Song 3. 

 (Osage version, p. 465: literal translation, p. 692.') 



M.M. • r 84 Transcribed by Alice C. Fletcher 



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FREE TRANSLATION. 



1. 



As in the darkness of evening I stand thou comest to me, 

 Thou, Wa-po'-ga, comest to me. 



2. 



As in the darkness of evening I stand thou comest to me, 

 Thou, I'-to", comest to me. 



As in the darkness of evening I stand thou comest to me. 

 Thou, We'-ts'a, comest to me. 



Songs of Triumph. 



The next group of songs bears the title Wa-tsi'-a-dsi Wa-tho". 

 No direct information could be obtained as to the meaning of this 

 title, which seems tn have become obscure, but from an analysis of 

 the compound word Wa-tsi', a corruption of the word wa-tse', 

 triumph; a-dsi, there; and from the words used in the songs of other 

 versions that will appear later, in this and other volumes, it would 

 seem proper to interpret the name as Songs of Triumph. Wa-tse'- 

 mo"-i" and other men versed in the rites said that when these songs 

 are sung at the ceremony the Singer's wife and her women com- 

 panions dance before the Xo'-ka and his A'-ki-ho" Xo'-ka, each 

 woman carrying a burden strap, a digging pole, or a loom pole. 



