VIII.

Go seek the red man's last retreat!

A lonesome land, the haunted lands!

Red mouths of beasts, red men's red hands:

Red prophet-priest, in mute defeat!

His boundaries in blood are writ!

His land is ghostland! That is his,

Whatever man may claim of this;

Beware how you shall enter it!

He stands God's guardian of ghostlands;

Ay, this same wrapped half-prophet stands

All nude and voiceless, nearer to

The awful God than I or you.

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