"Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song" ("The Wild Free Wind") is a song written by Shirley Brooks for his burletta The Wigwam sometime before 1847.
In the song, Cora, the Indian maiden, is praising the wind: "Oh!
The wild free wind is a Spirit Kind, And it loves the Indians well."
The song's chorus is:[1] It speeds her dart to the red deer's heart As he bounds from his secret lair And whether o'er sea or land it go, or land it go.
In the 1847 London presentation of The Wigwam, Mary Keeley played Cora where she received high praise for her rendering of the song.