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For a thousand years the Devil crouched	A
On the white hot flags of hell	B
For a thousand years the Devil cursed	C
The imps that had chained him well	B
For a thousand years the Devil sulked	D
And planned with his hell trained brain	E
Of the things he'd do when his term was thru	F
And freed from the blistering chain	E
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He'd even the score with the men of earth	G
And give them back pain for pain	E
For all of the days he had felt the blaze	H
And the sear of the galling chain	E
And it came to pass when his time was up	I
And hell's gates were opened wide	J
That all hell rang and the clinkered imps sang	K
When the Devil passed Outside	J
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I have served my time the Devil said	L
As he halted by heaven's gate	M
I have sweated in hell for a thousand years	N
And each year was a year of hate	M
I have framed my plans for a thousand years	N
I have worked out the details well	B
Now I'd have a place near the human race	O
As a sort of a prep school for hell	B
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The sons of men on the earth below	P
Have scarcely a chance to sin	Q
Churched belled and gowned they mope around	R
By precept all sealed in	Q
There is never a sin for lust of flesh	S
Nor sin for a man struck blow	P
And the red blood crime of the olden time	T
Has passed with the long ago	P
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Hell's motley crew is scarce worth coal	U
When they come to the thing called death	V
They squat on the coals with the real damned souls	W
And listen with bated breath	V
To the tales of the earth when the world was new	F
When a man had to fight for his own	X
When he took his wife at the risk of his life	Y
And killed for a half baked bone	X
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Now I'd build a place where a man might sin	Q
For the sake of his own desires	Z
Make his the cause and his the laws	A2
And the penalty mine own fires	Z
Hast a place on earth to breed such men	B2
Each for his own deeds blamed	C2
If you'll give me a place I'll breed a race	O
That hell may not be shamed	C2
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The God King sighed as he searched the plat	C2
And the map of the earth below	P
I have given a place for every race	O
In the belt from snow to snow	P
I have given a home to each bird and beast	C2
For even the fox has its hole	U
I have given all land to the sons of man	D2
And I've builded a home for his soul	U
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In the seven days that I toiled below	P
When I builded the seas and lands	E2
There was much to do and I didn't get thru	F
And one place unfinished stands	E2
It's the part of my work that I really regret	C2
For I know it's the worst of the lot	C2
It's known down below as The Land of the Snow	P
Or The Country that God forgot	C2
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It stands apart by the Northern Pole	U
Unfinished forgotten alone	X
And no man's hand has won this land	C2
And no man calls it his own	X
The country is made up of odds and ends	F2
Unfinished mountain and swamp and lake	G2
Stuff that couldn't be used when the earth was fused	C2
If you want it it's yours to take	G2
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I'll take this plot the Devil quoth	V
For I like your description well	B
Yes I'll take this place and I'll mould a race	O
That will be a credit to hell	B
Then he whistled an imp from the uttermost part	C2
And they dropped as the comets whirled	C2
Past the white baked stars past Venus and Mars	H2
To the unfinished part of the world	C2
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He landed at last on Denali's crest	C2
And he gazed on his acres wide	C2
Barren and bleak from each mountain peak	I2
And swamp to the Arctic's tide	C2
The Devil grinned as he stood and gazed	C2
Said he This is just what I need	C2
It's the place of my plan for the downfall of man	D2
Where I'll change his ambition to greed	C2
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Then he summoned the legions of hell to his side	C2
Named an arch imp to straw boss each crew	F
Tho they gibbered and cursed each one did the worst	C2
With the jobs Satan gave them to do	F
They tumbled the mountains high up and on end	C2
Piled glaciers where streams ought to be	J2
And swamp land was placed in the desolate waste	C2
That stretched from the hills to the sea	J2
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They shook down all hell for a climate to fit	C2
But they couldn't get suited in hell	B
So they took the worst parts and with devilish arts	K2
They built one that suited them well	B
They laid out muck swamps where the water lies dead	C2
Bred mosquitoes and moose flies and gnats	L2
Put the brown bear that kills on the barren brown hills	M2
And with quill pigs infested the flats	L2
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They shut off the sun for full half of the year	N2
Made each glacier a blizzard blown trap	O2
They strung out volcanoes half way to Japan	D2
Each one with a hair trigger cap	O2
They planned for the coast line a system of storms	P2
Each equipped with a ninety mile breath	V
And then spread o'er it all the fog that men call	Q2
The North Coast mantle of death	V
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Then knowing full well that man would not go	P
To a Land so forlorn to behold	C2
He salted the hillsides and some of the streams	R2
With nuggets and traces of gold	C2
He tinted the hills with a green copper ledge	S2
And covered the valleys with game	T2
All this for a lure then the Devil felt sure	U2
That the white man would fall for the same	T2
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THE LAND	C2
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The lure of the little known places	V2
Still calls as it called to your sires	W2
The longing for wide open spaces	V2
The perfume of evening camp fires	Z
The hunting for treasure unfound yet	C2
The knocking at fortune's own gate	C2
The doing of deeds for the joy that it breeds	X2
Were all used by the Devil as bait	C2
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The summers besprinkled with sunshine	Y2
The hillsides a riot of bloom	Z2
With meadows a color shot grandeur	A3
And valleys as still as a tomb	Z2
With mountains of cloud encased beauty	J2
Or with stars shining down on it all	Q2
It's the trails we don't know that call us to go	P
And no wonder man heeded the call	Q2
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The winters the trails all unbroken	B3
The far fields that beckon and call	Q2
The song of the frost on the runners	Z
And the Northern Lights high over all	Q2
The trees in the bend of the river	C3
The streams that nobody has spanned	C2
The whisper of gold the story half told	C2
All this by the Devil was planned	C2
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When the trap of the Devil was ready	J2
Widespread went the whisper of gold	C2
And the white men stampeded like cattle	D3
There never was tie that could hold	C2
The first mad rush to the Northland	C2
When the scum from the four ends of earth	V
Came in with a rush a scramble a crush	E3
Like scrap in a fusing pot hurled	C2
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They came all untaught and not ready	J2
Spurred on in the mad rush for gold	C2
They died here unsung and uncared for	F3
Of famine and scurvy and cold	C2
They had the same laws as the wolf pack	G3
Stay up for you die if you fail	H3
And the paths to the Northern placers	Z
Are marked by their graves on the trail	H3
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The towns that they started were plague spots	Z
With brothels and dance halls aglare	F3
With cribs faro banks and roulette wheels	Z
And phonographs adding their blare	F3
All traps for the young and unwary	F3
All builded to help with his fall	Q2
Never dealer was fair never game on the square	F3
For the Devil presided o'er all	Q2
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Nick fiendishly grinned when he saw his work	I3
And he chuckled with devilish glee	F3
When it comes to making an up to date hell	B
They've sure got to hand it to me	F3
For every ten souls that come in to this land	C2
There's nine of them headed for hell	B
With never a fight the percentage is right	C2
And my prep school is doing quite well	B
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Thus for a time he ruled this land	C2
Where few might venture forth	V
For never a man made law held good	C2
From Dixon's Entrance north	V
He held this land in his claw tipped grip	J3
And he took his pay in souls	Z
Theirs was the blame for they played his game	T2
And they paid for it on hell's coals	Z
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But the Devil lost when the law came in	Q
Or the men who made the laws	Z
The gambling hall and the dance hall went	C2
And the Devil was forced to pause	Z
For the life in the land develops men	B2
Men of an alien breed	C2
A new made lot that couldn't be bought	C2
And strangers to graft or greed	C2
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They loosed the land from the Devil's grip	J3
They pierced the hills with their trails	Z
They flagged the rocks at the harbor's mouth	V
They paved the way for the rails	Z
They builded a school where the dance hall stood	C2
And they brought in their children and wives	Z
They gave their all to the new land's call	Q2
And some of them gave their lives	Z
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Now the pimp and the brothel have passed away	K3
And the gambling hall is a dream	L3
A railroad train now follows the trail	H3
Where we followed a nine dog team	L3
A thousand stamps now sing their song	M3
Where we panned on the gold shot ledge	S2
And a picture show now marks the line	Y2
That once was the frontier's edge	S2
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The milch cows graze where the brown bear roamed	C2
And a saw mill sings its lay	K3
On a bar in the Yukon River	F3
Where we panned one summer day	K3
They are raising wheat where the bull moose grazed	C2
In the summers of long ago	P
It seems kind of strange when we note the change	N3
But we'd rather have it so	P
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Yet sometimes we dream as we camp at night	C2
In the bend of the river's flow	P
Of the land that was of the land we knew	F
In the days of the long ago	P
The wild free land that bred the men	B2
Who fought with might and main	E
And took this land from the Devil's hand	C2
And we'd like to see it again	B2