On the shores of gitchgoomy by the shining big sea water   Hiawatha old and grayin' listened to the older prophet listened to Lagu   And the young men and the women from the land of Ojibways   From the land of the Dakotas from the woodlands and the prairies      Stood and listened to the prophet heard lagu tell Hiawatha   "I have seen" he said, "A water bigger than the big sea water   Broader than the gitchgoomy bitter so that none cold drink it   Salty so that none would use it"      Hiawatha then spoke to them stopped all their jeering and their jesting   And he spoke to all the people   It's true what Lagu tells you for I have seen it in a vision   I have also seen the water to the east to the land of morning      And upon this great water came a strange canoe with pinions   Bigger than a grove of pine trees, taller than the tallest tree tops   And upon this great canoe were sails to carry it swiftly   And it carried many people, strange and foreign were these people      And white were all their faces and with hair their chins were covered   Then said Hiawatha, "I beheld a darker vision"   Many hundreds came behind them pushed their way across our prairies   In our woodlands rang their axes, in our valleys smoked their cities      Our people were all scattered all forgetful of our councils   Left their homelands going westward wild and woeful      And the man with bearded faces, the men with skin so fair   With their barking sticks of thunder drove the remnants of our people   Farther westward, westward, westward then wild wild and wilder   Grew the west that once was ours