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 Massasoit

The Wampanoag natives dwelled

Upon the land when Pilgrims came.

Their great chief Massasoit beheld

Their life would never be the same.

For a time Massasoit did be

Watchful as the Pilgrims did try

To survive as a colony.

Massasoit chose, as time went by,

To live with the Pilgrims in peace.

A Thanksgiving feast was the bond

That this friendship should never cease.

Massasoit misjudged the beyond.

The Pilgrim plague kept coming on

Till the Wampanoag were gone.