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By the shores of gitchee gumee, by the shining big-sea-water, stood the wigwam of nokomis, daughter of the moon, nokomis, dark behind it rose the forest, rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, rose the firs with cones upon them; bright before it beat the water, beat the clear and sunny water, beat the shining big-sea-water.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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By The Shores Of Gitchee Gumee, By

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By the shores of gitchee gumee, by the shining big-sea-water, stood the wigwam of nokomis, daughter of the moon, nokomis, dark behind it rose the forest, rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, rose the firs with cones upon them; bright before it beat the water, beat the clear and sunny water, beat the shining big-sea-water.
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