na,--"The wail of the sprite
for her babe and its father unfaithful,
Is heard in the midst of the night,
when the moon wanders dim in the heavens."

"Wild-Rose of the Prairies," he said,
"DuLuth listens not to the _Ha-ha_,
For the wail of the ghost of the dead
for her babe and its father unfaithful;
But he lists to a voice in his heart
that is heard by the ear of no other,
And to-day will the White Chief depart;
he returns to the land of the sunrise."
"Let Winona depart with the chief,--
she will kindle the fire in his _teepee_;
For long are the days of her grief,
if she stay in the _tee_ of Ta-te-psin,"
She replied, and her cheeks were aflame
with the bloom of the wild prairie lilies.
"_Tanke_[AK], is the White Chief to blame?"
said DuLuth to the blushing Winona.
"The White Chief is blameless," she said,
"but the heart of Winona will follow
Wherever thy footsteps may lead,
O blue-eyed, brave Chief of the white men.
For her mother sleeps long in the mound,
and a step-mother rules in the _teepee_,
And her father, once strong and renowned,
is bent with the weight of his winters.
No longer he handles the spear,--
no longer his swift, humming arrows
Overtake the fleet feet of the deer,
or the bear of the woods, or the bison;
But he bends as he walks, and the wind
shakes his white hair and hinders his footsteps;
And soon will he leave me behind,
without brother or sister or kindred.
The doe scents the wolf in the wind,
and a wolf walks the path of Winona.
Three times have the gifts for the bride[55]
to the lodge of Ta-te-psin been carried,
But the voice of Winona replied
that she liked not the haughty Tamdoka.
And thrice were the gifts sent away,
but the tongue of the mother protested,
And the were-wolf[52] still follows his prey,
and abides but the death of my father."

[AI] The Dakotas say the humming-bird comes from the "Land of the
rain-bow."

[AJ] See Legend of the Falls, or Note 28--Appendix.

[AK] My Sister.

"I pity Winona," he said,
"but my path is a pathway of danger,
And long is the trail for the maid
to the far-away land of the sunrise;
And few are the braves of my band,
and the braves of Tamdoka are many;
But soon I return to the lan