Aaron,I have always thought this one of the most beautiful poems ever written by an American. I don't know what the general opinon of Lindsay is over in the US of A. Didn't he kill himself? I have a little book of his called 'The Congo and Other Poems'.
But I think your ending is wrong. In my text (The Penguin Book of Modern American Verse edited by Geoffrey Moore 1954) it goes
They gore no more, they bellow no more,
They trundle around the hills no more:-
With the Blackfeet lying low,
With the Pawnees lying low
Lying low.
[This message has been edited by John Whitworth (edited June 12, 2008).]
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