Should you ask me,
whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions,
With the odors of the forest
With the dew and damp of meadows,
With the curling smoke of wigwams,
With the rushing of great rivers,
With their frequent repetitions,
And their wild reverberations
As of thunder in the mountains?

This is the begining lines of an epic poem, can you name poem and poet?

The song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

Good job!