An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie” by Vachel Lindsay In the Beginning The sun is a huntress young, The sun is a red, red joy, The sun is an Indian girl, Of the tribe of the Illinois. Mid-morning 5 The sun is a smoldering fire, That creeps through the high gray plain, And leaves not a bush of cloud To blossom with flowers of rain. Noon The sun is a wounded deer, 10 That treads pale grass in the skies, Shaking his golden horns, Flashing his baleful eyes. Sunset The sun is an eagle old; There in the windless west, 15 Atop of the spirit-cliffs He builds him a crimson nest. 3. Choose the best answer. The effect of the meter and rhythm ____. is irregular and disconcerting gives a fearful war tone shows the speaker's sadness sounds like a drum beat 4. Choose the best answer. The speaker infers that the Sun ____. controls life and death has different appearances and conditions feels just as animals and people do all of these