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    Alexander Posey Ode To Sequoyah

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    This poem honors Sequoyah, the Cherokee man who invented the Cherokee syllabary and alphabet. The summary praises Sequoyah for creating a writing system for the Cherokee language despite facing ridicule and hardship. It predicts that scholars and poets will honor Sequoyah's legacy and achievement for generations to come, wherever Cherokee people once lived across North America. The poem was written by Alexander Posey in 1910 to commemorate Sequoyah's invention of the Cherokee alphabet.

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    This poem honors Sequoyah, the Cherokee man who invented the Cherokee syllabary and alphabet. The summary praises Sequoyah for creating a writing system for the Cherokee language despite facing ridicule and hardship. It predicts that scholars and poets will honor Sequoyah's legacy and achievement for generations to come, wherever Cherokee people once lived across North America. The poem was written by Alexander Posey in 1910 to commemorate Sequoyah's invention of the Cherokee alphabet.

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    This poem honors Sequoyah, the Cherokee man who invented the Cherokee syllabary and alphabet. The summary praises Sequoyah for creating a writing system for the Cherokee language despite facing ridicule and hardship. It predicts that scholars and poets will honor Sequoyah's legacy and achievement for generations to come, wherever Cherokee people once lived across North America. The poem was written by Alexander Posey in 1910 to commemorate Sequoyah's invention of the Cherokee alphabet.

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    Alexander Posey Ode To Sequoyah

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    This poem honors Sequoyah, the Cherokee man who invented the Cherokee syllabary and alphabet. The summary praises Sequoyah for creating a writing system for the Cherokee language despite facing ridicule and hardship. It predicts that scholars and poets will honor Sequoyah's legacy and achievement for generations to come, wherever Cherokee people once lived across North America. The poem was written by Alexander Posey in 1910 to commemorate Sequoyah's invention of the Cherokee alphabet.

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    12.02.

    2020 Print version of Ode to Sequoyah

    Published on Academy of American Poets (https://poets.org)

    Ode to Sequoyah
    The names of Waitie and Boudinot—
    The valiant warrior and gifted sage—
    And other Cherokees, may be forgot,
    But thy name shall descend to every age;
    The mysteries enshrouding Cadmus’ name
    Cannot obscure thy claim to fame.

    The people’s language cannot perish—nay,


    When from the face of this great continent
    Inevitable doom hath swept away
    The last memorial—the last fragment
    Of tribes,—some scholar learned shall pore
    Upon thy letters, seeking ancient lore.

    Some bard shall lift a voice in praise of thee,


    In moving numbers tell the world how men
    Scoffed thee, hissed thee, charged with lunacy!
    And who could not give ’nough honor when
    At length, in spite of jeers, of want and need,
    Thy genius shaped a dream into a deed.

    By cloud-capped summits in the boundless west,


    Or mighty river rolling to the sea,
    Where’er thy footsteps led thee on that quest,
    Unknown, rest thee, illustrious Cherokee!

    Credit

    From The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey (Crane & Co., 1910). This poem is in the public domain.

    About this Poem

    "Sequoyah—The Cherokee who invented the Cherokee alphabet."

    —note from The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey (Crane & Co., 1910)

    Author

    Alexander Posey

    Alexander Posey, born August 3, 1873, was a Muskogee Creek poet, journalist, and humorist known
    for his poems and Fus Fixico letters.

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    12.02.2020 Print version of Ode to Sequoyah

    Date Published: 2017-09-27

    Source URL: https://poets.org/poem/ode-sequoyah

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