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Updated: June 19, 2025
Both were in deep mourning, after the fashion of the Sioux. "Ho ho!" exclaimed many warriors as he passed them, singing in a hoarse, guttural voice. "Ugh, he sings a war-song!" remarked one. "Yes, I am told that he will find his son's bones, or leave his own in the country of the enemy!" The rain had fallen incessantly for two days.
Cake froze to cake, until at last the boat was the center of a cake seventy-five feet in diameter. Sometimes they floated sideways, sometimes stern-first, while gravity tore asunder the forming fetters in the moving mass, only to be manacled by faster-forming ones. While the hours passed, Shorty stoked the stove, cooked meals, and chanted his war-song.
"Yellow Bear, an Arapahoe Dog Soldier, who was one of the scouts, began to ride about in circles and sing his war-song, saying that we ought not to go back without taking some scalps, or counting coup, and we youngsters agreed with him. We were disappointed when the others decided to go back at once and report.
"I am going on the ninth to sing the war-song at the Lake of Two Mountains, and on the next day at Saut St. Louis, a long, tiresome, ceremony. On the twelfth I am off; and I count on having news to tell you by the end of this month or the beginning of next." Thus Montcalm wrote to his wife from Montreal early in July. All doubts had been solved.
A new Italy was born the Italy of the Italian nation. In the words of Mameli's immortal hymn, which has been revived as the war-song of the Nationalists, "Fratelli d'Italia, l'Italia s'è desta, Dell' elmo di Scipio s'è cinta la testa." The actual operations of the war were too one-sided to be interesting from the military viewpoint.
It is a pagan war-song which, in being handed down from minstrel to minstrel, has lost nothing of its wild, exultant beauty, while it has received many Christian inflexions from the bards of a better religion than that in which it was originally conceived, through whose minds it passed before being committed to parchment.
We are happy to hear, reader, public homage to a learned and upright man, devoted to his fellow-workmen. See the curious work by M. Agricole Perdignier, from which the war-song is extracted.
And at last she goes, and wanders from comb to comb, her unsatisfied wrath finding vent in a war-song, or angry complaint, that every bee-keeper knows; resembling somewhat the note of a distant trumpet of silver; so intense, in its passionate feebleness, as to be clearly audible, in the evening especially, two or three yards from the double walls of the most carefully enclosed hive.
The applause, not only of the host, but the company, was loud and emphatic, and Lancey was constrained to sing again. After that the colonel sang a Turkish war-song. The colonel's voice was a tremendous bass, and he sang with such enthusiasm that the hearers were effectively stirred. Hamed, in particular, became wild with excitement.
The war-song is sung in every white village. The great canoes take food and powder up our river, for those who would destroy us." Menard was still looking upward. "My brother," he said, speaking slowly, "was once a young brave.
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