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), George Gales's Upper Mississippi: or, Historical Sketches of the Mound-Builders, The Indian Tribes, and the Progress of Civilization in the North-West (1867), and "The Spirit Raccoon," a Ho-Chunk narrative of Lake Mendota by a storyteller once known, collected by Charles E. Brown and the Folklore Section of the Federal Workers' Project in Wisconsin in Wisconsin Indian Place Legends (1936).
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:
And upon the hill-top the warriors awoke.
According to that, such chiefs must go without honor to.
He drank, the more thirsty he became. Finally, his thirst.
As useless unto mortals as it was of old.
Of these numerous effigies, of course we can only conjecture.
Beating of a war drum and the singing of his war song.
And in the barrow set they ring and gem and plate.
These effigies may have been designed to perpetuate the name of.
He drank, the more thirsty he became. Finally, his thirst.
His wonder-works of glory. Let it ever be.
What object the MOUND-Builders had in the laborious erection.
There is another version of this story in which the.
They vaunted his earlship, they honored doughtily.
The fact that many modern Indians have names that can not.
There is another version of this story in which the.
