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And the people from the margin watched him floating, rising, sinking, till the birch canoe seemed lifted high into that sea of splendor, till it sank into the vapors like the new moon slowly, slowly sinking in the purple distance. And they said, "Farewell forever!" said, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"
And the forests, dark and lonely, moved through all their depths of darkness, sighed, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"
And the waves upon the margin, rising, rippling on the pebbles, sobbed, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"
And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, from her haunts among the fen-lands, screamed, "Farewell, O Hiawatha!"
