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"The Path on the Rainbow", edited by George W. Cronyn, [1918],

Ojibwa War Songs

I

Hear my voice, Birds of War!

I prepare a feast for you to feed on;

I see you cross the enemy's lines;

Like you I shall go.

I wish the swiftness of your wings;

I wish the vengeance of your claws;

I muster my friends;

I follow your flight.

Ho, you young men warriors,

Bear your angers to the place of fighting!

Ii

From the south they came, Birds of War--

Hark! to their passing scream.

I wish the body of the fiercest,

As swift, as cruel, as strong.

I cast my body to the chance of fighting.

Happy I shall be to lie in that place,

In that place where the fight was,

Beyond the enemy's line.

Iii

Here on my breast have I bled!

See--see! these are fighting-scars!

Mountains tremble at my yell!

I strike for life.