The following experimental digital documentary poem is composed of citations of William Ellery Leonard's new verse translation of the Old English poem Beowulf (1923), a historical, ethnographic narrative written by Charles E. Brown for the performance of a young Native American Indian woman at the unveiling ceremonies of bronze markers on the Indigenous Ho-Chunk effigy mounds on Observatory Hill at the University of Wisconsin—Madison located in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives (1914), and a letter from Brown to State Architect Mr. Roger C. Kirchoff about the threatened destruction of two linear mounds on the public, land-grant university campus located in the same archives (1938). The linear mounds were destroyed to build an additional men's dormitory on campus.
When this MOUND web page is loaded and/or reloaded, server-side code selects and loads a random collection of lines from a relational database of citations:
Then did they swear a peace-pact, unalterable for both.
Both families prospered and intermarried.
An object lesson in the encouraging of the preservation of the.
And so did they, the Frisians, a truce with Danemen call.
Hunt the bear, deer and other wild animals of the forest.
Linear MOUNDS located in the old Picnic Grove are.
And crackled at the grave-MOUND. Heads did melt asunder.
This advice they followed. Before doing so each family or clan.
Grove. We know that the demolition of some of these ancient.
Bemoaning in dirges. Her warrior-son they raise.
Of my people separated at the mouth of the Missouri from.
Buildings. We shall be pleased to have your personal interest.
He might not in the parley-place 'gainst Hengest battle do.
On the shore of this fair lake Mendota they halted and chose it.
A WPA crew working under my supervision repaired and.
