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7/5/2008 6:35:47 PM

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Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
(1861 - 1914)

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The giant oak

And then the sound of marching armies 'woke
Amid the branches of the soldier oak,
And tempests ceased their warring cry, and dumb
The lashing storms that muttered, overcome,
Choked by the heralding of battle smoke,
When these gnarled branches beat their martial drum.

Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)

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