Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson
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has ever lived.
Theodore Watts-Dunton. The Pines, Putney Hill. 20th August, 1913. AUTHOR'S FOREWORD This collection of verse I have named "Flint and Feather" because of the association of ideas. Flint suggests the Red Man's weapons of war; it is the arrow tip, the heart-quality of mine own people; let it therefore apply to those poems that touch upon Indian life and love. The lyrical verse herein is as a "Skyward floating feather, Sailing on summer air." And yet that feather may be the eagle plume that crests the head of a warrior chief; so both flint and feather bear the hall-mark of my Mohawk blood. E.P.J. |
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