Chapter V: Passamaquoddy Love Song

Anigowanotenû!
Oft these lonely days thou look’st
On beauteous river and down shining stream.
Oft thou look’st and sighest deep,
Anigowanotenû!

With me thy lover by thy side
How fair that stream did bubble on!
How lovely was the silver moon!
Thy heart now tells thee of that joy.
E’en unto death I think of thee.
Anigowanotenû!

Oft these lonely days thou look’st
On beauteous river and down shining stream.
Oft thou look’st and sighest deep.
Anigowanotenû!

When we in birch canoe did glide
Together on that glistening lake,
How fair the hills and how we watched
The _red_ leaves whirling in the breeze.
Anigowanotenû!

Anigowanotenû!
We’ll rove once more in bark canoe
And watch the _green_ leaves swirl on high
When spring smiles on the mountain tops.
Anigowanotenû!
Oft these lonely days thou look’st
On beauteous river and down shining stream.
Oft thou look’st and sighest deep.
Anigowanotenû! P.

VI

THE SONG OF THE STARS

[_Passamaquoddy text_]

Nilun pesazmuk elintaquik.
Ntʾlintotebin kʾpesaukhenmâgonok.
Nilun sipsizuk squʿtek;
Kʾpʾmitoiapon pissokiqs
Kʾpesaukhenmagon pesazum.
Kʾtʾlintoanen âût niwesquok;
Otâût Kʾchî-Niwesq
Koitchimkononnoak nohowok katonkewinoak,
Nosokoat moinial
Nit mesq tepnaskwiewis
Mesq katonketitiq
Ketlapinen pemtenikek
Yot lintoakʾn pemtenikek.