{"id":31699,"date":"2025-07-23T00:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=31699"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:01:27","slug":"waterfall-wednesday-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/waterfall-wednesday-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterfall Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis (August 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n

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There aren’t many cities with a waterfall in the middle of them. Spokane<\/a> is the only other one that comes to mind. Soon after tumbling down Minnehaha Falls, this water enters the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

“Only once his pace he slackened,
\nOnly once he paused or halted,
\nPaused to purchase heads of arrows
\nOf the ancient Arrow-maker,
\nIn the land of the Dacotahs,
\nWhere the Falls of Minnehaha
\nFlash and gleam among the oak-trees,
\nLaugh and leap into the valley.<\/p>\n

There the ancient Arrow-maker
\nMade his arrow-heads of sandstone,
\nArrow-heads of chalcedony,
\nArrow-heads of flint and jasper,
\nSmoothed and sharpened at the edges,
\nHard and polished, keen and costly.<\/p>\n

With him dwelt his dark-eyed daughter,
\nWayward as the Minnehaha,
\nWith her moods of shade and sunshine,
\nEyes that smiled and frowned alternate,
\nFeet as rapid as the river,
\nTresses flowing like the water,
\nAnd as musical a laughter:
\nAnd he named her from the river,
\nFrom the water-fall he named her,
\nMinnehaha, Laughing Water.<\/p>\n

Was it then for heads of arrows,
\nArrow-heads of chalcedony,
\nArrow-heads of flint and jasper,
\nThat my Hiawatha halted
\nIn the land of the Dacotahs?<\/p>\n

Was it not to see the maiden,
\nSee the face of Laughing Water
\nPeeping from behind the curtain,
\nHear the rustling of her garments
\nFrom behind the waving curtain,
\nAs one sees the Minnehaha
\nGleaming, glancing through the branches,
\nAs one hears the Laughing Water
\nFrom behind its screen of branches?”<\/p>\n

— Henry W. Longfellow “The Song of Hiawatha” 1855<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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