# data[].attributes.body
From the red deer's hide Nokomis
Made a cloak for Hiawatha

All the village came and feasted,
All the guests praised Hiawatha,

# data[].attributes.body
Dead he lay there in the forest,
By the ford across the river;
Beat his timid heart no longer,
But the heart of Hiawatha
Throbbed and shouted and exulted,
As he bore the red deer homeward

# data[].attributes.body
"Go, my son, into the forest,
Where the red deer herd together,
Kill for us a famous roebuck,
Kill for us a deer with antlers!"

# data[].attributes.body
Of all beasts he learned the language,
Learned their names and all their secrets

Talked with them whene'er he met them,
Called them "Hiawatha's Brothers.

# data[].attributes.body
At the door on summer evenings
Sat the little Hiawatha;
(His grandmother taught him everything that he asked her.)
In the eastern sky, the rainbow,
Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?"
And the good Nokomis answered:
"'T is the heaven of flowers you see there

# data[].attributes.body
Many things Nokomis taught him

Showed the Death-Dance of the spirits,
Warriors with their plumes and war-clubs

# data[].attributes.body
There the wrinkled old Nokomis
Nursed the little Hiawatha,
Rocked him in his linden cradle

Lulled him into slumber, singing,
"Ewa-yea! my little owlet!

# data[].attributes.body
Hiawatha's gentle mother,
In her anguish died deserted
By the West-Wind, false and faithless,
By the heartless Mudjekeewis

# data[].attributes.body
But she heeded not the warning,
Heeded not those words of wisdom

Wooed her with his words of sweetness,
Wooed her with his soft caresses,
Till she bore a son in sorrow

# data[].attributes.body
Of the West-Wind, Mudjekeewis;
Listen not to what he tells you;
Lie not down upon the meadow,

# data[].attributes.body
Grew up like the prairie lilies
Grew a tall and slender maiden,
With the beauty of the moonlight

# data[].attributes.body
In the moonlight and the starlight,
Fair Nokomis bore a daughter.
And she called her name Wenonah