Myths and Legends of the Great Plains

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg&nbsp;75]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>SONG OF THE BIRDS<SPAN name="FNanchor_H_8" id="FNanchor_H_8"></SPAN><SPAN href="#Footnote_H_8" class="fnanchor">[H]</SPAN></h2> <p class="subtitle">Pawnee</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">All around the birds in flocks are flying.</span><br/> <span class="i0">Dipping, rising, circling, see them coming.</span><br/> <span class="i0">See, many birds are flocking here,</span><br/> <span class="i0">All about us now together coming.</span><br/></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yonder see the birds in flocks, come flying;</span><br/> <span class="i0">Dipping, rising, circling, see them gather.</span><br/> <span class="i0">Loud is the sound their winging makes.</span><br/> <span class="i0">Rushing, come they on the trees alighting.</span><br/></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">From the flock an eagle now comes flying;</span><br/> <span class="i0">Dipping, rising, circling, comes she hither.</span><br/> <span class="i0">Loud screams the eagle, flying swift,</span><br/> <span class="i0">As an eagle flies, her nestlings seeking.</span><br/></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">It is Kawas coming, Kawas flying;</span><br/> <span class="i0">Dipping, rising, circling, she advances.</span><br/> <span class="i0">See! Nearer she comes, nearer comes.</span><br/> <span class="i0">Now, alighted, she her nest is making.</span><br/></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg&nbsp;76]</SPAN></span> <span class="i0">Yonder people like the birds are flocking;</span><br/> <span class="i0">See them circling, this side, that side coming.</span><br/> <span class="i0">Loud is the sound their moving makes,</span><br/> <span class="i0">As together come they, onward come they.</span><br/></div> </div> <div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> <div class="footnote"><p><SPAN name="Footnote_H_8" id="Footnote_H_8"></SPAN><SPAN href="#FNanchor_H_8"><span class="label">[H]</span></SPAN> Rendition by Alice C. Fletcher.</p> </div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />