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THE DOUBLE LIFE OF POCAHONTAS pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
ocahontas had every reason to be happy. It was the<br >budding time of the year; who would not be happy?<br >The world was new-green, cherry trees were afroth, and<br >strawberries, like sweet red secrets, fattened on the ground.<br >At first birdcall, Pocahontas would run splashing into the<br >river, and along with the others in the village she would<br >wait to greet the Sun as it rose.<br > Together they would watch the sky turn from gray to<br >pink, to gold. Then suddenly they would shout. There it<br >came! And was it not a wonder that always it returned<br >again and yet again? All the people welcomed it, scattering<br >sacred tobacco into a circle, lifting up their hands and<br >singing to please their god, Okee, in the way their priests<br >had taught them. One must never forget Okee, for it was<br >He who held danger in his hands--lightning, floods,<br >drought, sickness, war.<br > Indeed, Pocahontas could hardly help but be happy. At<br >eleven, she was the right age for happiness. Still young<br >enough to romp with the children, yet old enough to join<br >the dance of unmarried girls. And how she danced--<br >whirling and stamping and shouting until her breath was<br >whisked into the wind, until she had grown wings like a<br >bird, until she had become sister to the trees, until she was<br >at one with everything that lived and grew. With the world<br >itself, round like a plate under the sky. And in the center of<br >the plate, there was her father, the great Chief Powhatan,<br >seated high, twelve mats under him, raccoon robe around<br >him with tails dangling. And beside him, there was Poca-<br >A9A<br >"
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THE DOUBLE LIFE OF POCAHONTAS pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024