Hiawatha note

From: "Daniel P. B. Smith"
>
> 1) What's the opening line?
>

Thre is an intersting question here [and yes, the lines I 
remember are not any opening I find!].   Are you asking for the 
opening line of the introduction

Should you ask me,
whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions,
With the odors of the forest
With the dew and damp of meadows,

or of Chapter 1

On the Mountains of the Prairie,
On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,
Gitche Manito, the mighty,
He the Master of Life, descending,



What I find tremendously impressive in such a long piece is the 
maintenance of the beat of the drums.

Joseph Harris 


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