From The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prompt:

 

At the stern sat Hiawatha,

 

With his fishing-line of cedar;

 

In his plumes the breeze of morning

 

Played as in the hemlock branches;

 

On the bows, with tail erected,

 

Sat the squirrel, Adjidaumo;

 

In his fur the breeze of morning

 

Played as in the prairie grasses.

 

On the white sand of the bottom

 

Lay the monster Mishe-Nahma,

 

Lay the sturgeon, King of Fishes;

 

Through his gills he breathed the water,

 

With his fins he fanned and winnowed,

 

With his tail he swept the sand-floor.

Done