The following passage adds to the development of the text mainly by showing Great Spirit! O watch o'er thy child!
Why hidest thou thy face?
Remember that thou once hast smiled
On our abandoned race.
Thus through the night the watching chief
Sighed to the list'ning air
A dirge of mingled hope and grief,
Of agony and prayer.
And, Osceola, where art thou-
Bird of the wild-wood free-
White chief, and sage, and prophet, bow
Beneath the council tree!
A. that Chief Osceola was killed by American soldiers in the Second Seminole War
B. how the Seminoles miss their brave chief and long for him
C. that Osceola is transformed into a bird and flies over the tribe, protecting them
O D. that Osceola betrayed the Seminoles and joined the American side of the war