But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop,....

“ But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given to a man too weak to use it; of a holy tree that should have flourished in a people’s heart with flowers and singing birds, and now is withered; and of a people’s dream that died in bloody snow. ”

Black Elk

From : Black Elk speaks: Being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux