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A Godspeed to Peary.
(Lines read at Mr. Bridgman's Farewell Dinner to Lieut.
Peary, June 20, 1898.)
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 unlock
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,
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