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Six lines mourn the Huron and Mohawks through lodge, song, silence, and war cries before ending with loss to the cross.

The poem grants both silence and war cries an equal light. Its final line names the cross as the force associated with their deaths.

A six-line typed elegy names what is gone: 'Here the Huron is gone / The Mohawks and their might', their lodge and song, and 'Their spirtual silence and war cries / Equally blazing with light'. It ends 'Lost to the cross they died'.

The poem is built as a list of losses, each line adding a people or a quality before the last line names the cross. Pairing silence with war cries, both 'blazing with light', honors the vanished nations without reducing them to peace or violence, and the unpunctuated lines give it the cadence of an epitaph.