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Ninety degrees beyond earth's blazing belt,
Will they behold the splendor of His face?
To conquer the world must man renounce the world?
These have renounced it. Had ye only faith
Ye might move mountains, said the Nazarene.
Why, these have faith to move the zones of man
Out to the point where All and Nothing meet!
They catch the bit of death between their teeth
In one wild dash to trample the unknown
And leap the bounds of knowledge. They have dared
Even to defy the sentinel that guards
The doors of the forbidden- dared to hurl
Their breathing bodies after the Ideal,
That like the Heavenly Kingdom must be taken
Only by violence. The star that leads
The leader of this quest has held the world
True to its orbit for a million years.
And shall he fail? They never fail who light
Their lamp of faith at the unwavering flame
Burnt for the altar service of the Race
from the beginning. He shall find the strange,
The white immaculate Virgin of the North,
Whose steady gaze no mortal ever dared,
Whose icy hand no human ever grasped.
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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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