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  • Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Housman Thomas (1860). “The Song of Hiawatha ... Illustrated by John Gilbert”, p.211