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The following favourite tale of, the Dahcotah is not the only tradition connected with this romantic spot. An Indian of the Dahcotah nation had united himself early in life to a youthful female, whose name was Ampato Sapa, which signifies, in the Dahcotah language, the Dark-day. With her he lived for many years very happily; their days glided on like a clear stream in the summer noon.
There I shall meet, ere many moons be past, My husband reconcil'd to me, and he Again shall sit beside me on the grass, And plait my hair with beads, And tell the trees, and birds, and flowers, That Dark-Day is more beautiful than they.
A younger bird is in his nest, And sings sweet songs from Dark-Days once fair bower, And I am lov'd no more. He will be no more to me as the sun, Which gives the young trees life in gentle spring. Nor as the tree which props the tender vine. He loves another better than Dark-Day He cares not for her, Nor for his children: No, he cares not for them.
Finding her bent upon withholding her consent to his plan, he informed her that all opposition on her part was unavailing, as he had already selected another partner; and that, if she could not see his new wife as a friend, she must receive her as a necessary incumbrance, for he was resolved that she should be an inmate in his house. The poor Dark-Day heard these words in silent consternation.
And he would sit beside me on the grass, And plait my hair with beads, And tell the trees, and flowers, and birds, That Dark-Day was more beautiful than they. I lov'd him long and well. And he to me Was as the tree which props the tender vine, Or clustering ivy, letting them embrace His strength and pride. When he withdraws from them, They fall, and I must die.
It's the same landscape, but it doesn't look the same to the eyes or give the same feelings to the heart. The dark-day feelings would be calm and quietly pleasant; the sunshine feelings would be full of thrills and heartbeats as to-day." "By Jove, you've hit it!" he exclaimed as if to please me by agreeing. "Full of thrills and heartbeats as to-day."
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