Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, The

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0034" id="link2H_4_0034"></SPAN></p> <h2> L'Envoi </h2> <p>You who have lived in the land,<br/> You who have trusted the trail,<br/> You who are strong to withstand,<br/> You who are swift to assail:<br/> <i>Songs have I sung to beguile,<br/> Vintage of desperate years,<br/> Hard as a harlot's smile,<br/> Bitter as unshed tears.</i><br/> <br/> Little of joy or mirth,<br/> Little of ease I sing;<br/> Sagas of men of earth<br/> Humanly suffering,<br/> <i>Such as you all have done;<br/> Savagely faring forth,<br/> Sons of the midnight sun,<br/> Argonauts of the North.</i><br/> <br/> Far in the land God forgot<br/> Glimmers the lure of your trail;<br/> Still in your lust are you taught<br/> Even to win is to fail.<br/> <i>Still you must follow and fight<br/> Under the vampire wing;<br/> There in the long, long night<br/> Hoping and vanquishing.</i><br/> <br/> Husbandman of the Wild,<br/> Reaping a barren gain;<br/> Scourged by desire, reconciled<br/> Unto disaster and pain;<br/> <i>These, my songs, are for you,<br/> You who are seared with the brand.<br/> God knows I have tried to be true;<br/> Please God you will understand.</i><br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />