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INDIAN RUG WEAVER, by                    
First Line: Weaving, weaving the long hours away
Last Line: Weaving, weaving!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Weavers And Weaving; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


Weaving, weaving the long hours away,
Weaving the story of yesterday --
Telling with color the horror of war;
Showing the conquests of tribes gone afar --
Weaving our sorrow when pale-face was foe,
Bringing us death, and famine, and woe --
Weaving, weaving!

Weaving, weaving, the past is long dead,
Only a rug, for the white man's tread;
Manito changes the warp of my loom,
Threading with peace, making rainbow for gloom,
Weaving the sunshine aslant on the hill,
Weaving the bird-song that comes to me still --
Weaving, weaving!





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