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  EW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Haihhaih! 
  

   Jiya-thontek 
  ! 
  

   Niyonkha! 
  

  

  Haihhaih! 
  

   Tejoskawayen 
  ton 
  ! 
  

  

  Haihhaih! 
  

   Skahentohenyon! 
  

  

  Hai! 
  

   Shatyherarta 
  — 
  

   Hotvizvisahongzue 
  — 
  

  

  Hai! 
  

   Kayaneengoha. 
  

   Netikenen 
  honen 
  

   Nene 
  kenyoiwatatye 
  — 
  

   Kayaneengowane. 
  

  

  Hai! 
  

   Wakaizvakayonnheha. 
  

  

  Hai! 
  

   Netho 
  ivatyongwententhe. 
  

  

  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 
  Come 
  Again 
  to 
  Greet 
  and 
  Thank. 
  Of 
  this 
  hymn 
  Mr 
  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 
  Kayanerenh-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 
  

   oycnkondonh, 
  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 
  

  

  