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Bill look here Here's the Times You see this picture	A
Read if you like a little later You never	A
Heard how I came to Fairbanks chanced to stay	B
It's eight years now You see in nineteen eleven	C
I lived in Hammond Indiana thought	D
I'd like a trip see mountains see Alaska	E
Perhaps find fortune or a woman well	F
You know from your experience how it is	G
It was July and from the train I saw	H
The Canadian Rockies stopped at Banff a day	B
At Lake Louise and so forth At Vancouver	A
Found travelers feasting Englishmen in drink	I
Flirtations budding coming into flower	A
And eager spirits waiting for the boat	J
Up to this time I hadn't made a friend	K
Stalked silently about along the streets	L
Drank Scotch like all the rest as much besides	M
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Well then we took the steamship Princess Alice	N
And started up the Inland Channel great	O
Got on our cheeks the breezes from the crystal	P
Cradles of the north began at once	Q
To find the mystery silence see clear stars	R
The whites and blacks and greens along the shores	S
And still I had no friend was quite alone	T
Just as I came on deck I saw a face	U
Looked stared perhaps Her eyes went over me	V
Would not look at me At the dinner table	P
She sat far down from me I could not see her	A
But made a point to rise when she arose	W
Did all I could to catch her eye no use	X
So things went and I gave up still I wondered	Y
Why she had no companion Was she married	Z
Was husband waiting her at Skagway well	F
I fancied something of the sort at last	A2
And as I said gave up	B2
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But on a morning	C2
I rose to see the sun rise all the sky	D2
First as a giant pansy petals flung	E2
In violet toward the zenith streaked with fire	A
The silver of the snows change under light	F2
Mottled with shadows of the mountain tops	G2
Like leaves that shadow flutter on a lawn	H2
At last the topaz splendors shoot to heaven	C
The sun just peeks and gilds the porcelain	C
Of snow with purest gold And in the valleys	I2
Darkness remains Orician ebony	V
Is not more black You've seen this too I know	J2
And recognize my picture There I stood	K2
Believed I was alone then heard a voice	L2
Is it not beautiful and looked around	M2
And saw my girl who had avoided me	V
Would not make friends before This is her picture	A
Name Elenor Murray So the matter started	N2
I had my seat at table changed and sat	O2
Next to my girl to talk with her We walked	P2
The deck together Then she said to me	V
Her home was in Chicago so it is	G
Travelers abroad discover they are neighbors	Q2
When they are home She had been teaching school	R2
And saved her money for this trip had planned	S2
To go as far as Fairbanks As for me	V
I thought I'd stop with Skagway Oh this life	T2
Your hat blows off you chase it bump a woman	C
Then beg her pardon laugh and get acquainted	U2
And marry later	A
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As we steamed along	V2
She was the happiest spirit on the deck	W2
The Wrangell Narrows almost drove her wild	X2
There where the mountains are like circus tents	Y2
Big show menagerie and all the rest	Z2
But white as cotton with perennial snow	J2
We swum past aisles of pine trees where a stream	A3
Rushed down in terraces of hoary foam	B3
The nights were glorious We drank and ate	O
And danced when there was dancing	C2
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Well at first	C3
She seemed a little school ma'am quaint demure	D3
Meticulous and puritanical	P
And then she seemed a school ma'am out to have	E3
A time so far away where none would know	J2
And like a woman who had heard of life	T2
And had a teasing interest in its wonder	A
Too long caged up At last my vision blurred	Y
I did not know her lost my first impressions	F3
Amid succeeding phases which she showed	G3
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But when we came to Skagway then I saw	H
Another Elenor Murray How she danced	H3
And tripped from place to place such energy	V
She almost wore me out with seeing sights	I3
But now behold The White Pass she must see	V
Upon the principle of missing nothing	C2
But oh the grave of Soapy Smith the outlaw	H
The gambler and the heeler that for her	A
We went four miles and found the cemetery	V
The grave of Soapy Smith Came back to town	J3
Where she would see the buildings where they played	K3
Stud poker Keno in the riotous days	L3
Time came for her to go She looked at me	V
And said Come on to Fairbanks As for that	O2
I'd had enough was ready to return	M3
But sensed an honorarium so I said	N3
You might induce me with a pregnant tone	T
That moment we were walking 'cross the street	O3
She stopped a moment shook from head to heels	P3
And said No man has talked to me that way	B
I dropped the matter She renewed it said	N3
Why do you hurry back What calls you back	Q3
Come on to Fairbanks see the gardens there	R3
That tag the blizzards with their rosy hands	S3
And romp amid the snows She smiled at me	V
Well then I thought why not And smiled her back	Q3
And on we went to Fairbanks where my hat	O2
Blows off as I shall tell you	T3
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For a day	B
We did the town together and that night	F2
I thought to win her First we dined together	A
Had many drinks my little school ma'am drank	U3
Of everything I ordered had a place	U
For more than I could drink And truth to tell	F
At bed time I was woozy ten o'clock	V3
We had not registered And so I said	N3
I'm Mr Kelly and you're Mrs Kelly	V
She shook her head And so to make an end	K
I could not win her signed my name in full	W3
She did the same we said good night and parted	N2
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Next morning when I woke felt none too good	K2
Got up at last and met her down at breakfast	X3
Tried eggs and toast could only drink some coffee	V
Got worse in short she saw it put her hand	S2
Upon my head and said Your head is hot	Y3
You have a fever Well I lolled around	M2
And tried to fight it off till noon no good	K2
By this time I was sick lay down to rest	Z2
By night I could not lift my head in short	Z3
I lay there for a month and all the time	A4
She cared for me just like a mother would	K2
They moved me to a suite she took the room	B4
That opened into mine by night and day	B
She nursed me cheered me read to me At last	A2
When I sat up was soon to be about	C4
She said to me I'm going on to Nome	B3
St Michael first They tell me that you cross	D4
The Arctic Circle going to St Michael	P
And I must cross the Arctic Circle think	I
To come this far and miss it I must see	V
The Indian villages And there again	E4
I saw but clearer than before the spirit	F4
Adventuresome and restless what you call	G4
The heart American I said to her	A
I'm not too well I'm lonely yes and more	H4
I'm fond of you you have been good to me	V
Stay with me here She darted in and out	C4
The room where I was lying doing things	I4
And broke my pleadings just like icicles	J4
You shoot against a wall	G4
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But here she was	K4
A month in Fairbanks living at expense	L4
Said I am short of money lend me some	M4
I'll go to Nome return to you and then	E4
We'll ship together for the States	N4
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You see	V
I really owed her money for her care	R3
Her loss in staying then I loved the girl	O4
Had played all cards but one I played it now	P4
Come back and marry me Her eyes looked down	J3
I will be fair with you she said and think	I
Away from you I can make up my mind	Q4
If I have love enough to marry you	T3
I gave her money and she went away	B
And for some weeks I had a splendid hell	F
Of loneliness and longing you might know	J2
A stranger in Alaska here in Fairbanks	R4
In love besides and mulling in my mind	Q4
Our days and nights upon the steamer Alice	N
Our ramblings in the Northland	S2
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Weeks went by	D2
No letter and no girl I found my health	S4
Was vigorous again One morning walking	C2
I kicked a twenty dollar gold piece up	B2
Right on the side walk Picked it up and said	N3
An omen of good luck a letter soon	T4
Perhaps this town has something for me Well	F
I thought I'd get a job to pass the time	A4
While waiting for my girl I got the job	U4
And here I am to day I've flourished here	V4
Worked to the top in Fairbanks in eight years	W4
And thus my hat blew off	X4
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What of the girl	O4
Six weeks or more a letter came from her	A
She crossed the Arctic Circle went to Nome	B3
Sailed back to 'Frisco where she wrote to me	V
Sent all the money back I loaned to her	A
And thanked me for the honor I had done her	A
In asking her in marriage but had thought	D
The matter over could not marry me	V
Thought in the circumstances it was useless	N
To come to Fairbanks see me tell me so	J2
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Now Bill I'm egotist enough to think	I
This girl could do no better Now it seems	Y4
She's dead and never married why not me	V
Why did she ditch me So I thought about it	Z4
Was piqued of course concluded in the end	K
There was another man A woman's no	J2
Means she has someone else expects to have	E3
More suited to her fancy Then one morning	C2
As I awoke with thoughts of her as usual	P
Right in my mind there plumped an incident
On shipboard when she asked me if I knew	T3
A certain man in Chicago At the time	A4
The question passed amid our running talk
And made no memory But you watch and see	V
A woman when she asks you if you know	J2
A certain man the chances are the man
Is something in her life So now I lay	B
And thought there is a man and that's the man
His name is stored away I'll dig it up	B2
Out of the cells subliminal so I thought	D
But could not bring it back	Q3
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I found at last	A2
The telephone directory of Chicago	J2
And searched and searched the names from A to Z	V
Some mornings would pronounce a name and think	I
That is the name then throw the name away	B
It did not fit the echo in my brain
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But now at last look here Eight years are gone	H2
I'm healed of Elenor Murray married too	T3
And read about her death here in the Times
And turn the pages over column five
Chicago startled by a suicide
Gregory Wenner kills himself behold
The name at last she spoke
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So much for waters in Alaska Now	P4
Turn eyes upon the waters nearer home	B3
Anton Sosnowski has a fateful day	B
And Winthrop Marion runs the story down	J3
And learns Sosnowski read the Times the day	B
He broke from brooding to a dreadful deed	Z
Sosnowski saw the face of Elenor Murray	V
And Rufus Fox upon the self same page
And afterwards was known to show a clipping	C2
Concerning Elenor Murray and the banner	A
Of Joan of Arc the words she wrote and folded	N2
Within the banner to be brave nor flinch