<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am a feather on the bright sky</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the blue horse that runs in the plain</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the shadow that follows a child</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the evening light, the lustre of meadows</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am an eagle playing with the wind</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am a cluster of bright beads</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the farthest star</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the cold of dawn</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the roaring of the rain</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the glitter on the crust of the snow</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the long track of the moon in a lake</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am a flame of four colors</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am a deer standing away in the dusk</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am a field of sumac and the pomme blanche</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am an angle of geese in the winter sky</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the hunger of a young wolf</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I am the whole dream of these things</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">You see, I am alive, I am alive</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I stand in good relation to the earth</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I stand in good relation to the gods</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">I stand in good relation to the daughter of Tsen-tainte</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class="">You see, I am alive, I am alive</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- N. Scott Momaday</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>