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Who sang
the first song?
What human throat
first set free a note
of joy or sorrow
for another
to hear?
My ancestors say
Song was always here.
Wind sang
in the stones and trees.
Rivers and streams
sang as they flowed.
Birds sang
from the branches,
frogs sang
from the marshes,
insects filled
the summer nights
with songs.
But who was the first
of our kind to sing?
Perhaps it is best
to say all life is breath
and breath, ah,
breath is song.
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Joseph Bruchac is a writer of books relating to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American and Anglo-American lives and folklore.
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