The dominions where you centre
As a great and mighty nation,
Do not flee in consternation;
Let him view your ways and measures.
Look upon your arts and treasures;
It would quicken his ambition.
Help to change his sad condition,—
This the teaching red' man needeth.
Seldom is it that he readeth
Of what goeth on around him.
White man's laws so close have bound him,
That he knoweth not nor heedeth
How the world about him speedeth.
Sitting Bull the white man heareth,
Making answer, that he feareth
The red man would sore abuse him,
Were he from his bonds to loose him.
Nay! were red man's wrongs adjusted,
He could be as safely trusted
As can any other nation.
Red man feels deep obligation.
For a kindness to him meted.
Rarely, save when illy treated
Doth the Indian rob and plunder,
And break white man's laws asunder.
Give him liberty, pale faces,
As accorded other races.
And he would become a nation
Purged from crime and degradation !
Sitting Bull his plea hath ended. Though not all by him intended Hath he through his scribe transmitted. Should his message, thus submitted To the people, be rejected. Be despised and be neglected. He hath filled his obligation. Henceforth he his loving station Holdeth near his people, stricken. He will watch by those who sicken, He will whisper to the dying Of a land where is no sighing. Of a land where plenty reigneth. Where no cold nor hunger paineth. Where the white man and red brother Dwell in peace with one another. Thus will he impress and guide them, Though they know not that beside them
Sitting Bull, their chief, still walketh,
And that with them still he talketh.
Though his outward form be hidden,
He -will come and go unbidden,
Working_for the elevation
Of his poor, down-trodden nation.
This is Sitting Bull's desire,
' Tis his Heaven ! he seeks none hig-her.
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