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PEARY AT THE POLE.
The goal is won.
White desolation lies
About the ageless axle of the earth;
While robbed of warmth, the never-setting sun
Circles above a world where life is not.
The goal is won. The dogs, prone on the ice,
Lap at the frozen surface of the sea;
While, grouped apart, their brown-faced masters watch,
With steady, trustful eyes, the stern White Man,
Whose word is law, whose will is destiny.
Stilled is the querulous barking of the dogs;
The grit and grind of sledge on snow and ice;
Stilled is the whistling intake of the breath,
The labored rise and fall of o'er taxed lungs;
Stilled is the dreadful throbbing in the brain
That told of toil, privation, sleepless nights.
The empty whiteness of the Arctic day,
The empty whiteness of the Arctic night;
The hours which are but figures on a dial -
The Sun at midnight, and the Sun at noon -
The desolation of a lifeless world,
Seem beautiful in the tired eyes of one
Whose life has been a living sacrifice,
And, who, in grizzled middle-age, beholds
The Dream of his lost youth made manifest.
The dream made manifest. At last, At last,
After long years of failure, hope deferred,
Toil without recompense, unjust reproach,
His work is ended. Love is his once more.
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This file contains poems and letters dedicated to Robert Peary and the 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Also included are poems relating to Frederick Cook and his claim of reaching the North Pole first.
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