Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A PAPOOSE, by RUDOLPH N. HILL


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First Line: Over the sky's light
Last Line: With the ghosts of your fathers, all through the dark?
Subject(s): Native Americans - Children


Over the sky's light
Fading in twilight,
Over the rim of the great, western sea;
Ever your thoughts must fare,
Ever they call you there --
Ghosts of your people -- papoose in the tree.

Ever they swing along;
Always they sing a song;
Sing while they ride on the buffalo-trail!
Swift is the hunting stride,
Ponies are shunting wide,
Dodging the charge of the foe they assail.

Sweetly, you swing and dream,
Out by the singing stream,
Little papoose, in your cradle of bark;
Who knows but you, too,
Giant bison pursue
With the ghosts of your fathers, all through the dark?





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