RECREATION. xxix 

A SIOUX LEGEND. 
SHANNON BRUCE. 
Before the Sioux or Mandan, 
Before each roving band 
Of Ute, or Cree or Blackfoot 
Trod o’er Dakota land; 
Before the red Apache 
Before the Kiowa, 
Before the Kaw or the Omaha, 
Or the Sauk or the Iowa; 
Before the birth of a mortal, 
Of a red man or a white, 
Before the flight of the seasons, 
Before the evil of the night; 
There came on the East and the West 
winds, 
With arrows, with bows and with shields, 
Where the hills of the wild Uncomphagr 
Run down to Navajo fields, . 
Two armies with plumes and with ban- 
ners, 
With shields and with arrows and bows, 
From bold Idaho, from the land of the 
Crow, 
To the plain where the Arkansas flows. 
They met in the red shock of battle, 
They fought without shouting or sound, 
In ghostly array for a moon and a day 
And the slain were as leaves on the 
ground. 
The legions that came on the East wind 
Were white as the morning is white, 
And the West-men were red as the even- 
ing is red 
E’er appear the last torches of night. 
The white men prevailed o’er the red men, 
And earth was heaped over the slain 
Till mountains untold rose from warm sea 
to cold, 
And these mark the last place of slain. 
And the arrows shot forth in the battle 
Flew blazing to uttermost height, 
And each arrow that slew, brighter burned 
as it flew, 
Till it turned to a star in its flight. 
And the stars tell the number of fallen, 
That fell for a moon and a day, 
When the spirits that led pallid ranks 
against red, 
The red scepter first wrested away. 
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