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 INDIAN GIRL'S BURIAL.

��" In the vicinity of Montrose, Wisconsin Territory, the only daughter of an Indian woman, of the Sac tribe, died of lingering consumption, at the age of eighteen. A few of her own race, and a few of the pale-faoes were at the grave, but none wept, save the poor mother."

Herald of tJie Upper Misitippi.

��A VOICE upon the prairies,

A cry of woman's woe, That mingleth with the autumn blast

All fitfully and low. It is a mother's wailing ;

Hath earth another tone, Like that with which a mother mourns

Her lost her only one ?

Pale faces gather round her,

They mark VI the storm swell high That rends and wrecks the tossing soul,

But their cold, blue eyes are dry. Pale faces gaze upon her,

As the wild winds caught her moan, - But she was an Indian mother,

So she wept her tears alone.

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