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:
They'd yield another floor to them, a high-seat and hall.
Hunt the bear, deer and other wild animals of the forest.
A WPA crew working under my supervision repaired and.
Flame, of spirits greediest, did all of those devour.
Other tribes of red children speaking the same tongue.
Many University alumni and others who are interested in.
The best of braves of War-Danes, Hnaef, on the pile lay stark.
Fish in the streams and fruits and roots on the hills.
Monuments could and should have been avoided. Last year.
Blameless bereaved was she of her dear ones both.
Among the families which journeyed toward the setting sun.
Preservation of similar ancient remains of the R**mans sculpture.
Then did they swear a peace-pact, unalterable for both.
Hunt the bear, deer and other wild animals of the forest.
(5 distinct groups), only seven still remain. If the two fine.
