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 LX.

"Large is our regal lodge, and furnished well With skins of beaver, bear, and buffalo; Nausamp and venison is its royal meal;  And its warm fire is like the summer's glow: There, with that Wampanoag shalt thou dwell,  And all our comforts in full safety know; The whilst, our old chiefs shall, in council great, Upon thy questions gravely meditate."

LXI.

Here closed the long debate, and, from the ground, Rose the thronged warriors, and hoarse murmurs past Through all that concourse, like the hollow sound Of Narraganset's waters, when the blast Begins to roll the tumbling billows round The rock-bound cape, which had so lately glassed Its imaged self—its pendant crags and wood— In the calm bosom of the silent flood.