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Rh Feet that run on willing errands!"

({em|1}}Smiling answered Hiawatha:

"In the land of the Dacotahs

Lives the Arrow-maker's daughter,

Minnehaha, Laughing Water,

Handsomest of all the women.

I will bring her to your wigwam,

She shall run upon your errands,

Be your starlight, moonlight, firelight,

Be the sunlight of my people!"

({em|1}}Still dissuading said Nokomis:

"Bring not to my lodge a stranger

From the land of the Dacotahs!

Very fierce are the Dacotahs,

Often is there war between us,

There are feuds yet unforgotten,

Wounds that ache and still may open!"

({em|1}}Laughing answered Hiawatha:

"For that reason, if no other,

Would I wed the fair Dacotah,