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I	A
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Flat as a drum head stretch the haggard snows	B
The mighty skies are palisades of light	C
The stars are blurred the silence grows and grows	B
Vaster and vaster vaults the icy night	C
Here in my sleeping bag I cower and pray	D
Silence and night have pity stoop and slay	D
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I have not slept for many many days	E
I close my eyes with weariness that's all	F
I still have strength to feed the drift wood blaze	E
That flickers weirdly on the icy wall	F
I still have strength to pray God rest her soul	G
Here in the awful shadow of the Pole	G
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There in the cabin's alcove low she lies	H
Still candles gleaming at her head and feet	I
All snow drop white ash cold with closed eyes	H
Lips smiling hands at rest O God how sweet	I
How all unutterably sweet she seems	J
Not dead not dead indeed she dreams she dreams	J
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II	A
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Sunshine I called her and she brought I vow	K
God's blessed sunshine to this life of mine	L
I was a rover of the breed who plough	K
Life's furrow in a far flung lonely line	L
The wilderness my home my fortune cast	M
In a wild land of dearth barbaric vast	M
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When did I see her first Long had I lain	N
Groping my way to life through fevered gloom	O
Sudden the cloud of darkness left my brain	N
A velvet bar of sunshine pierced the room	O
And in that mellow glory aureoled	M
She stood she stood all golden in its gold	M
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Sunshine O miracle the earth grew glad	M
Radiant each blade of grass each living thing	P
What a huge strength high hope proud will I had	M
All the wide world with rapture seemed to ring	P
Would she but wed me YES then fared we forth	Q
Into the vast unvintageable North	Q
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III	A
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In Muskrat Land the conies leap	R
The wavies linger in their flight	M
The jewelled snakelike rivers creep	R
The sun sad rogue is out all night	M
The great wood bison paws the sand	M
In Muskrat Land in Muskrat Land	M
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In Muskrat Land dim streams divide	M
The tundras belted by the sky	A
How sweet in slim canoe to glide	M
And dream and let the world go by	A
Build gay camp fires on greening strand	M
In Muskrat Land in Muskrat Land	M
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IV	K
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And so we dreamed and drifted she and I	A
And how she loved that free unfathomed life	K
There in the peach bloom of the midnight sky	A
The silence welded us true man and wife	K
Then North and North invincibly we pressed	M
Beyond the Circle to the world's white crest	M
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And on the wind flailed Arctic waste we stayed	M
Dwelt with the Huskies by the Polar sea	S
Fur had they white fox marten mink to trade	M
And we had food stuff bacon flour and tea	S
So we made snug chummed up with all the band	M
Sudden the Winter swooped on Husky Land	M
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V	S
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What was that ill so sinister and dread	M
Smiting the tribe with sickness to the bone	T
So that we waked one morn to find them fled	M
So that we stood and stared alone alone	T
Bravely she smiled and looked into my eyes	H
Laughed at their troubled stern foreboding pain	N
Gaily she mocked the menace of the skies	H
Turned to our cheery cabin once again	U
Saying 'Twill soon be over dearest one	V
The long long night then O the sun the sun	V
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VI	A
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God made a heart of gold of gold	M
Shining and sweet and true	W
Gave it a home of fairest mould	M
Blest it and called it You	W
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God gave the rose its grace of glow	X
And the lark its radiant glee	S
But better than all I know I know	X
God gave you Heart to me	S
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VII	A
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She was all sunshine in those dubious days	E
Our cabin beaconed with defiant light	M
We chattered by the friendly drift wood blaze	E
Closer and closer cowered the hag like night	M
A wolf howl would have been a welcome sound	M
And there was none in all that stricken land	M
Yet with such silence darkness death around	M
Learned we to love as few can understand	M
Spirit with spirit fused and soul with soul	G
There in the sullen shadow of the Pole	G
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VIII	A
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What was that haunting horror of the night	M
Brave was she buoyant full of sunny cheer	Y
Why was her face so small so strangely white	M
Then did I turn from her heart sick with fear	Y
Sought in my agony the outcast snows	B
Prayed in my pain to that insensate sky	A
Grovelled and sobbed and cursed and then arose	B
Sunshine O heart of gold to die to die	A
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IX	B
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She died on Christmas day it seems so sad	M
That one you love should die on Christmas day	M
Head bowed I knelt by her O God I had	M
No tears to shed no moan no prayer to pray	M
I heard her whisper Call me will you dear	Y
They say Death parts but I won't go away	M
I will be with you in the cabin here	Z
Oh I will plead with God to let me stay	M
Stay till the Night is gone till Spring is nigh	A
Till sunshine comes be brave I'm tired good bye	A
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X	B
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For weeks for months I have not seen the sun	V
The minatory dawns are leprous pale	A2
The felon days malinger one by one	V
How like a dream Life is how vain how stale	A2
I too am faint that vampire like disease	B
Has fallen on me weak and cold am I	A
Hugging a tiny fire in fear I freeze	B
The cabin must be cold and so I try	A
To bear the frost the frost that fights decay	M
The frost that keeps her beautiful alway	M
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XI	B
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She lies within an icy vault	M
It glitters like a cave of salt	M
All marble pure and angel sweet	M
With candles at her head and feet	M
Under an ermine robe she lies	B
I kiss her hands I kiss her eyes	B
Come back come back O Love I pray	M
Into this house this house of clay	M
Answer my kisses soft and warm	B2
Nestle again within my arm	C2
Come for I know that you are near	Y
Open your eyes and look my dear	Y
Just for a moment break the mesh	D2
Back from the spirit leap to flesh	D2
Weary I wait the night is black	E2
Love of my life come back come back	E2
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XII	B
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Last night maybe I was a little mad	M
For as I prayed despairful by her side	M
Such a strange antic visioning I had	M
Lo it did seem her eyes were open wide	M
Surely I must have dreamed I stared once more	F2
No 'twas a candle's trick a shadow cast	M
There were her lashes locking as before	F2
Oh but it filled me with a joy so vast	M
No 'twas a freak a fancy of the brain	N
Oh but to night I'll try again again	U
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XIII	B
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It was no dream now do I know that Love	A
Leapt from the starry battlements of Death	G2
For in my vigil as I bent above	A
Calling her name with eager burning breath	G2
Sudden there came a change again I saw	B
The radiance of the rose leaf stain her cheek	H2
Rivers of rapture thrilled in sunny thaw	B
Cleft were her coral lips as if to speak	H2
Curved were her tender arms as if to cling	P
Open the flower like eyes of lucent blue	W
Looking at me with love so pitying	P
That I could fancy Heaven shining through	W
Sunshine I faltered stay with me oh stay	M
Yet ere I finished in a moment's flight	M
There in her angel purity she lay	M
Ah but I know she'll come again to night	M
Even as radiant sword leaps from the sheath	I2
Soul from the body leaps we call it Death	G2
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XIV	A
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Even as this line I write	M
Do I know that she is near	Y
Happy am I every night	M
Comes she back to bid me cheer	Y
Kissing her I hold her fast	M
Win her into life at last	M
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Did I dream that yesterday	M
On yon mountain ridge a glow	X
Soft as moonstone paled away	M
Leaving less forlorn the snow	X
Could it be the sun Oh fain	N
Would I see the sun again	U
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Oh to see a coral dawn	J2
Gladden to a crocus glow	X
Day's a spectre dim and wan	K2
Dancing on the furtive snow	X
Night's a cloud upon my brain	N
Oh to see the sun again	U
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You who find us in this place	B
Have you pity in your breast	M
Let us in our last embrace	B
Under earth sun hallowed rest	M
Night's a claw upon my brain	N
Oh to see the sun again	U
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XV	A
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The Sun at last the Sun I write these lines	B
Here on my knees with feeble fumbling hand	M
Look in yon mountain cleft a radiance shines	B
Gleam of a primrose see it thrill expand	M
Grow glorious Dear God be praised it streams	B
Into the cabin in a gush of gold	M
Look there she stands the angel of my dreams	B
All in the radiant shimmer aureoled	M
First as I saw her from my bed of pain	N
First as I loved her when the darkness passed	M
Now do I know that Life is not in vain	N
Now do I know God cares at last at last	M
Light outlives dark joy grief and Love's the sum	L2
Heart of my heart Sunshine I come I come	L2