"On the third day of his fasting By the lake he sat and pondered, By the still, transparent water; Saw the sturgeon, Nahma, leaping, Scattering drops like beads of wampum, Saw the yellow perch, the Sahwa, Like a sunbeam in the water, Saw the pike, the Maskenozha, And the herring, Okahahwis, And the Shawgashee, the craw-fish! “Master of Life!” he cried, desponding, “Must our lives depend on these things?”"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part V
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