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Monday November 23, 2009    2:42 AM
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Poetry and Songs by Native Americans
 

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And I think over again
My small adventures
When with a shore wind I drifted out
In my kayak.
And I thought I was in danger.
My fears,
Those I thought so big,
For all the vital things
I had to get and to reach.

And yet, there is only
One great thing,
The only thing:
To live to see in huts and on journeys
The great day that dawns
And the light that fills the world.


(Copper Eskimo)


translated by Knud Rassmussen Intellectual Culture of the Copper Eskimo
retold in In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations, John Bierhorst (editor), New York: 1971











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