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THE ICE OF THE NORTH
White, immaculate, storm-beaten beaches, lonely sea beyond seas,
beyond ken,
From the ice of your farthermost reaches, re-echos your challenge
to men!
They have sought you with worship and wonder; in despair have they
sent forth their breath -
And for answer - the crash of your thunder, the shiver and silence
of death!
You have wooed them, aroused them, and quelled them, you have
prisoned them fast in your floes,
You have drawn them, betrayed and repelled them, and their
bones lie a-bleach on your snows.
Is your diadem gemmed with star-flowers from those far-flaming
fields of the sky,
But the sign of a Tyrant whose powers, overthrow, and destroy
and defy?
Oh! imperious, pitiless regions - snow panoplied hills
that entice -
Are those silent, impassible legions, but guarding a.
bosom of ice?
Or is it the radiant duty of your rapturous heart
of delight,
That crimsons with currents of beauty, the dark span
of your desolate night?
Through the long voiceless twilights that darken your virginal,
slumbering, plain,
Do you dream of the sunlight, and harken for the voice of the
southwind again?
Oh! mysteries never beholden by the ages, we question
and wait
For the ultimate answer withholden in the mist-woven mantle
of Fate.
By your star-splendid beauty still haunted, in the wake of
your moons, we set forth -
By your perilous silence undaunted, we follow the call
of the North!
Margaret Ridgely Partridge.
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