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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>By bloody pool—rattling, gasping his last.<BR>
Close at the end of distance the two Chose<BR>
Traces of those deep cuts lie thickly upon<BR>
I do not betray you, I still go forward,<BR>
But what I am looking at is hardened snow,<BR>
I. Further Exploration of Spitsbergen<BR>
VI. Smeerenburg and the Whale-Oil Rush<BR>
marked with a dark stroke from the left, encroached<BR>
He terrifies the Vast, he seems so wild;<BR>
XV. The International Circumpolar Stations: The Greely Expedition<BR>
And trumpet at his lips; nor does he cast<BR>
He never even dreams, being sheer snow;<BR>
Preface to the 1970 Edition<BR>
Writhing their stunted limbs,<BR>
As if your human shape were what the storm<BR>
Scrawny wolves, and you,<BR>
Of tree-dividing sky finally comes down to<BR>
The high whites spread over the buried earth.<BR>
To follow in the path of their brief blossoming<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>