The stranger paused and read.
“O winter land!” he said,
“Thy right to be I own;
God leaves thee not alone.
And if thy fierce winds blow
Over drear wastes of rock and snow,
And at thy iron gates
The ghostly iceberg waits,
Thy homes and hearts are dear.
Thy sorrow o’er thy sacred dust
Is sanctified by hope and trust;
God’s love and man’s are here.
And love where’er it goes
Makes its own atmosphere;
Its flowers of Paradise
Take root in the eternal ice,
And bloom through Polar snows!”
1881.
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