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Haihhaih! 

 Jiya-thontek ! 

 Niyonkha! 



Haihhaih! 

 Tejoskawayenton! 



Haihhaih! 

 Skahentohenyon! 



Hai! 

 Shatyherarta — 

 Hotyizvisahongwe — 



Hai! 

 Kayaneengoha. 

 Netikenen honen 

 Nene kenyoizvatatye - — 

 Ka xanecngozvane. 



Hai! 

 Wakaizvakayonnheha. 



Hai! 

 Xctho zvatyonpwententhe. 



Woe! Woe! 

 Hearken ye ! 

 We are diminished ! 



Woe ! Woe ! 

 The cleared land has become a thicket. 



Woe! Woe! 

 The clear places are deserted ! 



Woe ! 

 They are in their graves — 

 They who established it — 



Woe ! 

 The Great League. 

 Yet they declared 

 It should endure — 

 The Great League. 



Woe! 

 Their work has grown old. 



Woe ! 

 Thus we are become miserable. 



This would follow verse 5 succeeding the Great Hymn : The 

 League I Conic Again to Greet and Thank. Of this hymn Air Hale 

 said in his Iroquois Condoling Council: 



The keynote of the hymn may be said to be struck by its first 

 line . . . The word kayanerenh, as has already been said, means 

 properly " peace," in which sense it is used throughout the Iroquois 

 version of the English prayer book in such expressions as " The 

 Prince of Peace," " give peace in our time." Here it is a con- 

 tracted form of the longer term Ka ya n ere 11 h-kowa , " Great Peace," 

 which is the regular and, so to speak, official name of their league 

 or constitution. Thus the speaker, or rather singer, begins by 

 saluting the League of Peace, whose blessings they enjoy ... In 

 the next line of the hymn the singer greets the chief's kindred, who 

 are the special objects of the public sympathy. Then he salutes the 

 oyenkondonh, a term which has been rendered " warriors "... It 

 comprises all the men (the manhood or mankind) of the nation, 

 as in the following verse the word zvakonnykih, which is also obso- 

 lete, signifies all the women of the people. Hale. Condoling Coun- 

 cil, p. 62, 63 



In this also Mr Hale gave another version of this hymn, saying: 



The lines of the translated hymn have been cast into the meter of 

 Longfellow's Hiawatha. The version in these lines, however inade- 

 quate, will give a better idea of the true force of the original than 

 a bald literal translation. We are to imagine in the singing, that 



