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THE FROZEN GRAIL.
To Peary and his band.
Why sing the legends of the Holy Grail,
The dead crusaders of the Sepulchre,
While these men live? Are the great bards all dumb?
Here is a theme to shake the heart of Song,
And make Fame's watchman tremble at his post.
What shall prevail against the spirit of man,
When solitude, and space, and cold, and hunger,
And the white menace of uncertainty
Prevail not? Dante in his frozen hell
Shivering endured no bleakness like the void
These men have warmed with their own flaming will
And peopled with their visions. The fierce wind
From Arcturus in their faces, at their backs
The whip of the world's doubt, and in their souls
Courage to die- if death should be the price
Of the cold cup that shall assuage their thirst,
They climb, and fall, and stagger toward the goal.
They lay themselves the road whereby they travel,
And sue God for a franchise. Does He watch
Behind the window. of the Northern Lights?
In that Grail-chapel of their stern-vowed quest,
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