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The Sledge of Peary.
Far in the North, to the worlds highest circle,
Journeyed a man from a lone Artic station,
Eagerly seeking the Pole to discover,
Honor and triumph to bring to his nation.
Faithful were they whom he chose for his followers,
Strictly they held to their leaders decisions,
Strong was the sledge he had skillfully fashioned,
which carried the instruments, furs and provisions.
Daring, yet wise was the man who commanded,
with resolute will and courage unshaken,
Forward he pressed with his dogs and attendants
To finish the work by him undertaken.
Dreary and wide were the desolate ice-fields,
Biting the cold where he made observations,
Restless his mind and weary his body,
Till he had secured complete demonstrations.
Ended at last was the desperate struggle,
Finished his work and fixed the location,
Raised was the staff on a ridge of the ice-field
Over the Pole waved the flag of his nation.
Southward he moved over treacherous places,
Centered his thoughts upon self-preservation,
Crossed broken ice and the channels of water,
Where the dogs and the sledge proved his means of salvation.
Out of the North sailed the man who had conquered,
Returned to the port from which he had started,
Brought home his sledge and the dogs from the Northland,
And the knowledge he gained, to the world was imparted.
Now in a hall of historic old Bowdoin
A relic of value, in sightly position,
Covered with scars, rests the sledge of brave Peary,
The life-saving sledge of his last expedition.
they Eates Pennell
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This file contains poems, articles, and letters relating to polar explorers Robert Peary, Ernest Shackleton, and Frederick Cook, and their expeditions.
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