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A GODSPEED TO PEARY.
Lines read at Mr. Bridgman's Farewell Dinner to Lieut. Peary, June 20,189₺
Peary, Godspeed!
I hardly know
The vast and intricate significance
Of all that snow
To which you go;
I only understand
A brave man dares again.
When heroes fight,
Who asks his trivial why,
So that they fight like heroes?
Maybe, - it well may be!-
Peary shall find
Fauna and flora quite unknown to me,
And Polar secrets wrest
That shall unlod
Dependent secrets of the East and West;
But what so science gain,
Or whatsoe'r accrues to commerce,
This I think is best:
The courage of the quest,
The fearless eyes,
The 'dauntless soul,
In them the Pole!
So that the Pole make Peary,
As all such dreams
Have power to make a man,
I care not much that Peary find the Pole!
And perhaps the wish were kind
He ne'er may find
What with its finding
Means a dream at end,
For who so finds a dream,
Strange though it seem,
Must lose it as he finds -
"Tis so with dreams.
Peary, Godspeed!
We let you go
With hands that linger,
Hands proud to hold,
Reluctant hands to loose;
And I, an idle singer,
A recent friend of ancient admiration,
Would venture thus to bid you
A Godspeed full as kind
As those who longer
Have loved you, Peary,
Longer, maybe, and stronger,
Yet with no will more willing,
Peary, towards you -
Centlest of all the strong,
Kindest of a the brave.
Richard Le Gallienne.
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