Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature: An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891. Vols. IXXI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 18611889 | | Song of the North Wind | By James Benjamin Kenyon (18581924) |
| [Born in Frankfort, Herkimer Co., N. Y., 1858. Died in New York, N. Y., 1924. From In Realms of Gold. 1887.] |
| HARK to the voice of me! | |
Hear thou the singing | |
Of him who has never | |
Been paid for his song! | |
This is the choice of me, | 5 |
Still to go ringing | |
The rhymes that forever | |
Are surly and strong. | |
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Knowst thou the regions cold | |
Whence I have hasted? | 10 |
Knowst thou the way I take | |
Over the earth? | |
Still stand the legends old | |
Ice-kings unwasted | |
Fending the frigid lake | 15 |
Where I had birth. | |
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Frost-banded fountains | |
Snow-fed from far peaks; | |
Firths of the polar sea | |
Rigid as stone; | 20 |
Shag-bearded mountains; | |
Deeps that no star seeks; | |
Strange lights that solar be | |
These I have known. | |
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Men fear the breath of me; | 25 |
Sorrow and anguish, | |
Famine and fever | |
Follow my path. | |
I am the death of thee; | |
I make thee languish; | 30 |
Swiftly I sever | |
Loves ties in my wrath. | |
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Chains cannot hold me, | |
Gyves cannot bind me, | |
Bolts cannot lock me, | 35 |
Floods cannot drown! | |
Flyand I fold thee; | |
Hideand I find thee; | |
Cryand I mock thee; | |
Howling thee down! | 40 | |
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