HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



There is but one stanza and three words to this song. The first 

 and fourth lines repeat two of the words: no n -we, a pathway (typi- 

 fying life's onward movement), and shka-dse, play. The third word, 

 ho n -ga, occurs at the end of the third line and gives the key to the 

 meaning of the song. Ho n -ga is a ceremonial term applied to the child, 

 upon whom, during the secret portion of the ceremony, are placed 

 the symbols of life, of strength, of plenty, of the continuity of all that 

 makes for happiness and peace. Laughing vocables, indicative of 

 care-free joy, fill the rest of the musical measures. 



The little Song makes the picture of a bright pathway, free from 

 danger or trouble, where play the children filled with the potentialities 

 of Happiness. 



Washington, D.C. 



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