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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.
The goal is won.
White desolation lies
Around the ageless axle of the earth;
While robbed of warmth, the neversetting
sun
Circles above a world where life is not.
But Peace is in his heart, and o'er the
Pole,
Blown trim and taut by the wild Arctic
wind,
Flosts the fair flag he loved and served
so well--
The Red of patriot blood in battle shed;
The White of willing human sacrifice;
The Blue of Heaven and eternal hope.
Lambert R. Thomas.
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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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