Classic Poem

Healing Prayer to the Salmon-Berry Vines

Don't be startled, Supernatural One,
by my coming and sitting down
to make a request of you, Supernatural One.
I mean this, this is the reason why I come to you.
I come to you to pray you, please,
to let me take some of your blanket,
Sore-Healer, that it may heal the burn of my child,
that, please, may heal up his burn, Supernatural One.
O, Supernatural One, now I put you on to the sore of my child
that you may lick off this great sickness, that you,
please, make it heal, you, Supernatural One,
that, please, it may heal up, please, you,
Healing-Woman, you, Long-Life-Maker, please
take pity on me that my mind may be at rest,
you, Supernatural One.