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FLOE-BERG BEACH. “The cold earth slept below, Above the cold sky shone, And all around With a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of snow The breath of night like death did flow Beneath the …
AUTUMN TRAVELLING. “When suddenly a grosse fog over spred, With his dull vapour all that desert has, And heaven’s cheerfull face enveloped; That all things one, and one as nothing was, And this great…
WINTER QUARTERS. “Let winter come! let polar spirits sweep The dark’ning world and tempest-troubled deep. Though boundless snows the withered heath deform, And the dim sun ne’er wanders through the …
THE ROYAL ARCTIC THEATRE. “Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Sport that wrinkled Care deride…
WINTER OCCUPATIONS AND AMUSEMENTS. “Darkness, Light’s eldest brother, his birthright Claimed o’er this world, and to heaven chased light.” Donne. “Behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest …
AN ARCTIC CHRISTMAS. “So now is come our joyful’st feast, Let every man be jolly, Eache roome with yvie leaves is drest, And every post with holly; Now all our neighbours’ chimneys smoke, And Christm…
A HAPPY NEW YEAR. The old year dies on southern skies, And leafless woods that moan and quiver; The shadows creep o’er ocean deep, And silent lake and rustling river; And all is gloom around the tomb…
RETURN OF THE SUN. “Most glorious orb! that were a worship, ere The mystery of thy making was revealed! Thou earliest minister of the Almighty Which gladdened on their mountain tops the hearts Of the…
DETAILS OF SLEDGE TRAVELLING. “Give me some ink and paper in my tent, I’ll draw the form and model of our battle: Limit each leader to his several charge, And put in just proportions our small force.…
THE JOURNEY OF EGERTON AND RAWSON. “You were used to say, Extremity was the trier of spirits, That common chances common men could bear, That when the sea was calm, all boats alike Showed mastership …
