But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
From Black Elk
I cured with the power that came through me.
I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
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