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We are the stars who sing, we sing with our light; We are the birds of fire, we fly over the sky. Our light is a voice. We make a road for the spirits, for the spirits to pass over. Among us are three hunters who chase a bear. There never was a time when they were not hunting. We look down on the mountains. This is the song of the stars. --Abenaki-Passamaquoddy Song |
This song was collected in Maine by Charles G. Leland around 1882; he gives a phonetic version in the language-dialect of that time, "Glint-wah-gnour, Pes Sausmok," the "Song of the Stars", in Algonquian Legends, Dover reprint (1992) of Leland's 1884 book pubished by Houghton Mifflin.
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