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 with battle-bucklers, as his prayer had been.
The animal that the priest or relatives had directed the departed.
From this legend Lake Mendota obtained its Indian name.
So the Geatish clansmen bemoaned their dearth.
Whirling Thunder, Hole-in-the-Day, Clear Sky, Screamer, etc.
Found a hiding place in a hollow log. One of the Indians.
A MOUND upon the headland, that was broad and high.
According to that, such chiefs must go without honor to.
Wonkshekhomikla, "where the Indian lies."
Laid their Lord beloved, weeping in their dearth.
Was, among many others, taught by Pythagoras and Plato.
The Indian wisely desisted. The other hunter had no such scruples.
Framing a word-chant, speaking of the King.
These effigies may have been designed to perpetuate the name of.
And that a dire calamity would befall him if he killed it.
