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ULITIMA THULE.
By William Ellery Leonard.
It was not for Arctic gold and a Claim at the
end of the great white trail;
Nor yet for the Arctic lore- for a map of the
floe and a graph of the gale:
But the quest came out of a primitive urge in
the blood of our common birth-
The lure of the last lone verge and the desert
end of the rolling earth.
For this he abandoned the green of the world,
the lanes and the hills and the lees
And rivers of midsummer nations, and banks
with the corn and the vine and the trees,
And the genial zones of the planet's rains,
and the belt of the planet's flowers;
For this he abandoned all cities- their house-
holds, their singing and sunsets and bowers.
Onward, north of the Northern Lights, hungry
and cold and alone
Eternity under his frozen feet, and the snows
of the ages unknown,
with never the boom of the purple seas, nor
even a mountain of fire,
North of the Plain of the thousand slain- who
were dead of the same desire.
Till the East and West were lost in the South,
and the north was no more, and he stood
Face to face with the ancient dream thro his hope
and his hardihood;
And the alien skies where the polar sun went
round the horizon's rim
And the nameless ice below belonged at last to
the race through him.
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This file includes poems, articles, and letters relating to Admiral Robert Peary, the ship Roosevelt, and North and South Pole expeditions.
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