The Grass on the Mountain
Oh, long, long
The snow has possessed the mountains.
The deer have come down and the big horn,
They have followed the Sun to the south
To feed on the mesqyuite pods and the bunch grass.
Loud are the drums
In the tents of the mountains.
Oh, long, long
Have we eaten chia seeds
And dried deer's flesh of the summer killing.
We are wearied of our huts
And the smoky smell of our garments.
We are sick with desire of the sun
And the grass on the mountain.
The picture is a water colour by John White (1583-93)
The aged man of Pomeiooc in his winter garment
America.
The wonderful poem The Grass on the Mountain
is from the pen of Mary Austin (1868 - 1934)
Paiute, USA..
The snow has possessed the mountains.
The deer have come down and the big horn,
They have followed the Sun to the south
To feed on the mesqyuite pods and the bunch grass.
Loud are the drums
In the tents of the mountains.
Oh, long, long
Have we eaten chia seeds
And dried deer's flesh of the summer killing.
We are wearied of our huts
And the smoky smell of our garments.
We are sick with desire of the sun
And the grass on the mountain.
The picture is a water colour by John White (1583-93)
The aged man of Pomeiooc in his winter garment
America.
THE aged men of Pommeioocke are covered with a large skinne which is tyed uppon their shoulders on one side and hangeth downe beneath their knees wearinge their other arme naked out of the skinne , that they maye bee at more libertie . Those skynnes are Dressed with the hair on, and lyned with other furred skinnes . The yonnge men suffer noe hairr at all to growe uppon their faces but as soon as they growe they put them away, but when they are come to yeeres they suffer them to growe although to say truthe they come opp very thinne . They also weare their haire bownde up behynde , and, have a creste on their heads like the others. The contrye abowt this plase is soe fruit full and good, that England is not to be compared to it .
This wee piece of text is taken from a much larger contribution made in 1583 by the English travellers and artists like Walter Raleigh and John (Iohn) White.
http://www.ancestry.com/
and freepages.genealogy.roots.ancestry
The wonderful poem The Grass on the Mountain
is from the pen of Mary Austin (1868 - 1934)
Paiute, USA..
Mary Hunter Austin ca. 1900 photographed by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859–1928) http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com
Mary Hunter Austin was born on September 9, 1868 in Carlinville, Illinois (the fourth of six children) to George and Susannah (Graham) Hunter. She graduated from Blackburn College in 1888. For 17 years she made a special study of Indian life in the Mojave Desert, and her publications set forth the intimate knowledge she thus acquired. She was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, as well as an early feminist The Land of Little Rain (1903). And defender of Native American and Spanish-American rights.
She is best known for her tribute to the deserts of the American South-west
