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SEA-LOVE (PUGET SOUND INDIAN), by ANNICE CALLAND First Line: Harken! The drum-beat of the sea Last Line: O drum-beat of the sea! Subject(s): Native Americans; Puget Sound; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America | ||||||||
Harken! The Drum-beat of the Sea, Sea-Song and Love-Song The Sea-Lover is singing: My Love is beautiful As sea flowers are beautiful; As sea shells are beautiful; As the moon on the Sea is beautiful; As the Being is beautiful My Love is beautiful, Leda with the swift feet, Leda, daughter of Ba-tiel. I come as the Sea comes Surging against the shore, Resounding through the hills And the hills sounding back; Great winds bear me in To my Love with the swift feet, My love with the two high breasts, I watched as a child playing Where the brook meets the neap tide; Little daughter of Ba-tiel Molding images of birds, beasts and fishes. Long have I waited; Now I come thundering Down the white beaches, Surging in from the Sea, Flowing in from the Sea To my Love, a Rainbow Mist about me. I am the son of The-Old-Man-Of-The-Sea. I am the son of my mother, Storm-Dancer. My Love with the swift feet Bid farewell to thy mother, Flower-Of-The-Forest; Bid farewell to thy father, Ba-tiel. Look on me here, me your own As I look on you, my own; We two shall disappear into the Sea And never again Appear on land. Harken! the Drum-beat of the Sea, Sea-Song and Love-Song, The Sea-Lover is singing: My Love is a Rainbow. My love is the Dawn. O Sea-Song! O Love-Song! O Drum-beat of the Sea! | Other Poems of Interest...GHOSTS AT KE SON by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE OLD INDIAN by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT SCHOLARLY PROCEDURE by JOSEPHINE MILES ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON THE INDIANS ON ALCATRAZ by PAUL MULDOON PARAGRAPHS: 9 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THEY ACCUSE ME OF NOT TALKING by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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