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 Seattle
 
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 By 
 
 ALICE ROLLIT COE 
 
 Etchings by 
 
 L. ROSS CARPENTER 
 
 Seattle 
 The Alice Harriman Co. 
 
 Publishers 
 
 1908
 
 Copyright 1908 
 
 by 
 Alice Rollit Coe 
 
 SEATTLE 
 
 LOWMAN & HANFORD CO. 
 PRINTERS
 
 of 
 
 The Yule Log 
 
 Introduction 
 The Blue Cascades 
 
 Illustrated 
 The Wave 
 Cedar Lake 
 
 Illustrated 
 Life's Rose 
 Fulfilment 
 Faring Forth 
 
 Illustrated 
 Seattle 
 
 The Falling Fir 
 The Deserted Cabin 
 
 Illustrated 
 
 Robert Louis Stevenson 
 The Meadow-Lark 
 
 Illustrated 
 Lessons 
 
 Facing the Sunrise 
 An April Day 
 Ebb Tide 
 The Old Church Tower 
 
 Illustrated 
 Fraser Canyon 
 A Woodland Wooing 
 
 Illustrated 
 Old Lace 
 The Tyee 
 
 Illustrated 
 By Latticed Arch 
 To a Water Lily 
 On Extending Twentieth Avenue 
 Love in Alaska 
 On the Way
 
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 Continued 
 
 The House Boat on the Sticks 
 
 Illustrated 
 The Northern Passage 
 
 Illustrated 
 
 The Ingle Nook 
 
 Illustrated 
 Questionings 
 Hail to the Fleet 
 
 Illustrated 
 The Cruise of the Oregon 
 
 Illustrated 
 
 The Man Behind the Gun 
 Outward Bound 
 
 Illustrated
 
 
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 The biasing Yule log's cheery ^low 
 Was caughl from 5uji5 of long ago > 
 5o, once ;on Bcthlehgra sfrfiamed the light 
 
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 That warms each hcartlhis Christmas niht
 
 /4// i/ie witchery of springtime, all the summer's splendor fades; 
 Yet for me the light is breaking on the blue Cascades. 
 
 AWN! The rugged line of mountains black against a 
 
 copper sky; 
 
 Black, the gaunt firs in the foreground; then the level clouds that lie 
 Stretched above them flush to crimson all the reaches of the sky. 
 
 And the lake has caught the glory! Suddenly upon its breast 
 Every little lifeless ripple wakes to rose and amethyst: 
 Now each peak is royal purple, etched in gold along its crest. 
 
 Twilight comes: across the mountains and the lake soft colors 
 
 steal 
 
 Ash of rose and liquid beryl, moving mists, that slowly feel 
 Their dim way among the foothills, here obscure them, there reveal. 
 
 Dreams, ambitions, loves, illusions, one by one their beauty 
 
 fades; 
 But for me the sunset lingers on the blue Cascades.
 
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 Vashon Island 
 
 ^ ITTLE wave, brown wave, pulsing on the pebbles, 
 
 Hidden in the shadow of the spreading alder trees, 
 Do you see your brothers, afoam upon the ocean, 
 Leaping in the sunlight, bending to the breeze? 
 Little wave, brown wave, 
 You are one with these. 
 
 Little heart, foolish heart, fretting in the shallows, 
 
 Eager to be moving in the swift, strong tides that run 
 Far, far out to seaward, yet the same life surges 
 From these quiet eddies to the dipping sun: 
 Little heart, foolish heart, 
 You and they are one.
 
 II
 
 Qkfcar 
 
 I WOULD my life were like this quiet lake, 
 Shut from the windy world by mountains high, 
 The stillness of the dawn upon my breast 
 Ere yet the hush is broken by the birds; 
 Gazing entranced upon the snowy peaks, 
 No thought less pure than they, reflected there ; 
 Flushing with joy to greet the coming sun, 
 And in my heart, all night, star-thoughts of God!
 
 THE lattice, Love! and see 
 How my rose has bloomed for thee! 
 
 Ah, what care did nature bring 
 
 To its utmost perfecting! 
 
 At no cost if it were born. 
 
 Why the thorn? , 
 
 Many a sweet, forgotten night 
 Filled its cup with perfume light; 
 In its bosom, fold on fold, 
 Lies the blush of dawns untold 
 Daily largess of the sun. 
 All in one. 
 
 So in love, Life's rose, are met 
 Aspirations infinite, 
 The quintessence of the tears 
 Shed thro* all the bitter years, 
 Joy of wakening woods that bring 
 Birds a-wing. 
 
 Shall we, in despite of pain. 
 Eagerly its sweetness drain? 
 Pull its petals all apart? 
 Bare its trembling, golden heart? 
 Toss aside, and let it lie, 
 So to die?
 
 Continued 
 
 Nay, not so, but tenderly 
 Will I pluck the rose for thee 
 See, the dew upon it lingers! 
 Take it, Love, with reverent fingers, 
 In the hollow of thy breast 
 Let it rest.
 
 JTulfilmnit 
 
 I WILL sing to the world," she said ; 
 "So sweet my song shall be, 
 The very birds will hush their throats 
 And men will die for the love of me." 
 
 In a warm home nest, 
 She sings to the baby on her breast; 
 His tiny ear 
 Alone may hear. 
 
 'There are laurels to win," she cried; 
 
 "My brow must wear its crown; 
 There's a world of work for voice and pen, 
 And sweet the hope of a fair renown." 
 
 With patient art, 
 
 She writes but Love on her baby's heart; 
 With tear and prayer, 
 That one word there.

 
 "The great winds wait." 
 
 Faring Forth.
 
 Jfarituj Jtotly 
 
 HE light on the mountain has faded, 
 The shadows are folded low 
 
 On the foothills that glowed like beryl; 
 
 To the southward, far and slow, 
 
 The white sail slips from the circling arm 
 
 Of the harbor-line at last, 
 
 And the great winds wait to bear it out 
 
 To the sea, unknown and vast. 
 
 The night on the upland is falling, 
 
 As my weary heart and I 
 
 Fare forth from the well-known haven 
 
 There are few to say good-bye: 
 
 The work that is all unfinished; 
 
 The victories none applaud; 
 
 The love that failed; but what care I 
 
 Asleep on the breast of God?
 
 QUEEN of the West! Fair city of our hope! 
 Seated, like Rome, upon her seven hills, 
 With majesty of mountain girt about, 
 And at thy feet the sea. Mist-swathed at dawn, 
 Banded with jewels, like the sky, at night. 
 The soft Pacific wave that laps thy feet, 
 Urges thy freighted ships to distant shores, 
 Bringing the treasures of the East again. 
 Here is thy throne of beauty; here we see 
 The last great monument that man has set 
 To mark his slow and painful westward way. 
 Mother of giants yet to be, all hail! 
 Pulsing with joyous life in all thy veins, 
 Rich, warm and young! 
 
 How beautiful thou art! 
 Stretching thine arms to greet the Orient; 
 Gazing, with eyes of mystery, to pierce 
 The far sea-spaces; dreaming, mother-like; 
 The boundaries of thy power still unset, 
 The wonder of thy destiny unknown.

 
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 GENTURIES long, to the north wind's song, 
 I have beaten a rythmic time; 
 On my dark green crest did the eagle rest, 
 I was King of the Northern Clime. 
 
 With axe and with saw, and with wedge, at last, 
 They have conquered my mighty girth; 
 
 A moment I sway then tear my straight way 
 Through the shuddering trees, to earth: 
 
 (A flutter of birds in trembling flight, 
 Soft boughs dropping one by one) 
 A Titan sigh and prone I lie 
 Undone, undone, undone.
 
 "How desolate it stands upon the slope 
 Of yonder hill." 
 
 The Deserted Cabin.
 
 (Cabin 
 
 Whidby Island 
 
 BOW desolate it stands upon the slope 
 Of yonder hill ; the vacant windows stare ; 
 No curtain sways ; no eager welcome waits 
 From smiling faces there. 
 
 The path is overgrown, and through the grass, 
 Self-sown, the pansies from their border stray; 
 And thick athwart the door the ivy shade 
 Grows deeper day by day. 
 
 And such my life since you have left: the ram 
 Unheeded falls, the sun shines as of old, 
 But lingers not in all the dreary rooms 
 To touch your hair to gold. 
 
 And yet, a little vine of memory 
 Clings round the doorway where your garments swept; 
 Close to the threshold where your footfall passed, 
 Forget-me-nots have crept.
 
 For the Coterie 
 
 RAVE soldier heart! condemned to stand aside 
 'And watch the marching columns as they passed; 
 
 To know that each man had his fighting chance 
 
 At least ; that, whether he returned at night 
 
 Bearing his shield or on it, his the joy 
 
 Of striking with what might he had for right 
 
 And freedom. Only thou a patriot, too 
 
 Who like that earlier hero, could have cried, 
 
 'A hundred lives were all too few for me 
 
 That I might give them for my country," thou 
 
 Must be denied, thy flaming spirit pent 
 
 Within a form how frail! 
 
 Some springs there be, 
 
 That wanting outlet, turn to bitterness; 
 
 Some smothered fires eat out the heart of life; 
 
 But in the fine alembic of thy soul 
 
 No aspiration perished, but transfused, 
 
 Transmuted, found, at length, its gracious use. 
 
 Some word of thine has nerved another's arm, 
 
 Down on the firing line, to mighty deed ; 
 
 Some song of courage fallen on the ear 
 
 Grown deaf to duty; or, some cheering thought 
 
 Of brotherhood has warmed the heart of one 
 
 Cut off from rescue, boldly striking out 
 
 One last, brave blow before he falls alone. 
 
 And so the hero's meed is thine at last; 
 
 Untried in war, but captain of thy soul; 
 
 In life's grim conflict, victor ; for we read, 
 
 Not he who takes a city merits praise, 
 
 But he who rules his spirit; so we lay 
 
 The laurel wreath upon thy lonely grave.
 
 "O to wander in the wood-ways." . 
 The Mtadou--l.<irl.
 
 OHAVE you heard the meadow-lark, the meadow-lark, 
 the meadow-lark? 
 
 D have you heard it singing in the woods of Washington? 
 Wnen the dogwood bloom is drifted white against the somber 
 
 hemlocks, 
 
 Like late snows caught in the hill-clefts when Winter's past 
 and gone? 
 
 to wander in the wood-ways! where the close-set firs are rising 
 Tall and stately, like the pillars of some old cathedral gray, 
 
 Every fluted shaft uplifted straight and naked to the arches 
 
 Of the thick, green boughs that top them, shutting out the light 
 of day. 
 
 Here, the arbutus, the sweetest of the flowers of old New Eng 
 land, 
 
 Finds a rival in the blossom of the pink salal that peeps 
 From the burnished leaves that cluster close about the fallen cedar, 
 Crowding downward to the mosses where the tiny tea-vine 
 creeps. 
 
 The slender dappled alders by the brook are scare a-quiver; 
 
 The silence falls caressingly like snowflakes on the fir; 
 And then we hear the meadow-lark, "Sweet, Sweet," its voice is 
 calling 
 
 We hush our hearts to listen to the Spring's dear messenger. 
 
 The nightingale in story lives, enchantress of the woodland; 
 
 And the little English skylark every poet's heart has won; 
 But oh! to hear the meadow-lark, the meadow-lark, the meadow- 
 lark! 
 
 Once more to hear it singing in the woods of Washington!
 
 ITH open book before her 
 In which her task was set, 
 A little child sat sorrowing 
 With cheeks and lashes wet; 
 She saw the roses blowing, 
 She heard the wood-birds sing, 
 "Ah, me!" she sighed, "but learning 
 Is such a weary thing!" 
 
 With open book before her 
 Where life's sad lessons lay, 
 A woman sat and sorrowed 
 Through all the lonely day: 
 She saw the roses wither, 
 The bird of peace take wing, 
 "Ah, me!" she sighed, "forgetting 
 Is such a weary thing!"
 
 3Faruu; 
 
 mountain tops were splendid with the dawn, 
 The sea aglow, the morning that he died, 
 And there was light upon his face at last, 
 As if the secret of the dawn were his. 
 Yet all his days were passed in bitter toil 
 In weary cities, shut from sun and sea. 
 Joy laid no roses at his happy feet; 
 Love crowned him not, and Sorrow oft o'ertook 
 And fared with him along the dusty way. 
 But let not Pity weep a soul's defeat, 
 Nor think his life unfruitful of reward; 
 Though Love denied him he had learned to love; 
 Though unattained the heights to which he strove, 
 The hardy sinews of the climber his; 
 Joy was not his, yet other hearts there were 
 That sang for gladness he made possible: 
 So, with serene though all unlaureled brow. 
 Triumphantly he entered into Life.
 
 Att April lag 
 
 IT is April, exquisite April! 
 Loveliest child of die Spring; 
 Timid, even to tears, 
 But the smiles are tarrying 
 Only a moment behind, 
 And when she smiles, we say 
 "We would live a life of winters 
 For just this April day!" 
 
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 FjHEN Life and Love were new, dear heart, 
 ^AS How lavishly we spent 
 The precious hours how lightly met, 
 And parted well content. 
 
 Now life is at the ebb, dear heart, 
 
 But Love ah, Love will stay! 
 Cling closer, closer yet, dear heart 
 
 Thank God for each sweet day!
 
 "Now the Ivy wraps m- round." 
 The Ohl ('Inn: li /
 
 (J&lfc (Efptrrlj 
 
 Tacoma 
 
 ONG, blessed years I lifted 
 
 My green top to the sun, 
 Before man came and laid them low 
 My brothers, one by one. 
 
 The birds* song, and the wind's song, 
 They made a pleasant sound; 
 
 Now my mighty shaft is broken, 
 And the ivy wraps me round. 
 
 They have built a House of Worship, 
 
 They have hung a bell, to say, 
 "Turn, turn aside and worship God, 
 It is the Sabbath Day. 
 
 "Leave off your busy, restless work; 
 Come, turn aside and pray" 
 But we, His trees, and His ivy green. 
 We worship God alway.
 
 (Eamjmt 
 
 CERCHANCE in such a place as this, apart 
 From all the ways of men, with hate athirst, 
 Trusting vast silences his guilt to hide, 
 
 Some wretched Cain has wrought the deed accurst 
 And lo! the world, agape, has on his secret burst. 
 
 But had some gentle spirit blossomed here, 
 
 Brimmed with the love of men, his quiet day 
 
 Spent in distilling all the sweets he drew 
 From solitude, to honor his dead clay 
 Pilgrims, with hearts aflame, would crowd the narrow way.
 
 
 
 HE mist gathers white on the mountains 
 
 White are the sails on the bay ; 
 The evergreen woods come trooping 
 
 Down to the dashing spray. 
 Clusters of wild spirea, 
 
 Flecking the shore, will be 
 Like blossoms of foam, when the summer 
 Comes to the inland sea. 
 
 At the door of the forest, the dogwood 
 
 Stretches its arms of snow. 
 Guardian of secrets only 
 
 The heart of a lover may know. 
 Silently, far above us. 
 
 The wind's soft fingers stir 
 The pale, green plume of the alder. 
 
 Lifted against the fir. 
 
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 The ferns at our feet are unfolding, 
 
 The Oregon grape a-bloom, 
 Its delicate, golden tassels 
 
 Touching with light the gloom 
 Of the twilight trail we follow. 
 
 Lured by the witchery 
 Of white-starred dewberry, twining 
 
 The trunk of the fallen tree. 
 
 The meadow-lark sings from the cedar, 
 
 The laugh of the brook replies 
 Mad with delight, as it hurries 
 
 Down where the sea-gull flies. 
 Love ah, long she was straying 
 
 Has ended her weary quest, 
 Like Spring to the waiting woodlands, 
 
 She comes, a song in her breast. 

 
 WV jHEN it is dark and rainy, 
 
 W And there's no fun anywhere, 
 I like to go to grandma's room 
 And curl up in a chair. 
 
 Then she unlocks her bureau drawer, 
 And takes out all the things 
 
 She calls her treasures, there are pearls, 
 And chains, and pins, and rings, 
 
 And tiny baby shoes she says 
 
 Her children used to wear, 
 And the cutest, softest, yellow curls 
 
 Of little babies' hair. 
 
 And then she puts them all aside, 
 And lifts from out its place, 
 
 Behind the rest, the long blue box 
 That holds her fine old lace. 
 
 There are just yards and yards, and I 
 Stand close beside her chair, 
 
 And touch it softly, just like this 
 But grandma doesn't care. 
 
 What do you think she told me once? 
 
 "Some day, when you're a bride. 
 This lace will all be yours, my dear" 
 I felt so queer inside,
 
 Car* 
 
 Continued 
 
 My heart it gave a flutter, 
 Like a little birdie flying; 
 
 But when I looked at grandma 
 My grandmamma was crying! 
 
 She didn't cry like me, of course, 
 But slowly down her face 
 
 A little tear-drop crept, and fell 
 Upon the soft old lace. 
 
 She looked so sorry that I thought 
 
 I hadn't better stay; 
 She didn't notice when I kissed 
 
 Her cheek and slipped away. 
 
 I often wonder why it was 
 The tears were on her face, 
 
 That day she opened the blue box, 
 And showed me her old lace.
 
 "No more upon the silent lake 
 He guides the long canoe." 
 
 The Tyee.
 
 MORE upon the silent lake 
 He guides the long canoe; 
 Nor seeks the forest openings 
 
 Where the deer come trooping through. 
 
 His fire is out upon the beach; 
 
 No sign on wood or stream 
 Is left to tell us that he lived 
 
 His life is but a dream. 
 
 No skill had he to mark for us 
 
 The dear, familiar spot; 
 Like mist upon the mountain's brow 
 
 He was and he is not.
 
 Hatttofc Arrty 
 
 the garden of the Past 
 The ways are cool and wide; 
 Soft-footed Memory goes before, 
 Joy, laughing, runs beside, 
 
 Adown the dear old paths, to where 
 
 The brooklet stays our feet; 
 There, Memory, by latticed arch, 
 
 Where rose and myrtle meet, 
 
 Finger on lip, will pause a space, 
 
 And lightly lean and lift 
 The loose-swung curtain of the vine, 
 
 And smile at me; but swift 
 
 I turn aside that path no more 
 
 With eager feet I trace, 
 Lest, suddenly, with breath indrawn, 
 
 I meet thee face to face!
 
 Uto a Ebtrr 
 
 HERE have you come from my beautiful lily? 
 
 Not from a region of darkness or cold. 
 Fairy airs cherished your pure, pearly petals, 
 Fairy suns tinted your heart's yellow gold. 
 
 Made you your bed where the light zephyrs linger, 
 Nestled in mosses, close-cradled with care? 
 
 Was your light stamen's perpetual tremble 
 
 Stirred by soft music that thrilled through the air? 
 
 Down in the deep, tangled roots of the rushes, 
 Slept I unheeding beneath the blue lake; 
 
 Till from the wonderland stretching above me 
 Came a soft voice calling me to awake. 
 
 Upward, still upward, all darkly, all blindly 
 
 Safe in my bosom a treasure I bore; 
 Might I sink downward and give up the struggle? 
 
 I could not rest as I rested before. 
 
 When the glad sunlight first smiled me a greeting. 
 Thrilling me through with the deepest delight. 
 
 Open I flung every gleaming white petal 
 Where had I gathered a burden so bright?
 
 ate a Hafrr 
 
 Continued 
 
 O the sweet bliss of a mission accomplished! 
 
 O the first breath of the lovelier life! 
 What was the struggle to me? It was ended: 
 
 Where is the darkness when sunshine is rife? 
 
 
 
 Learn thou a lesson, O heart full of sorrow, 
 
 Think not that loveless or useless thy fate, 
 Dreams cannot dream what the future may yield thee, 
 
 Learn to look upward and patiently wait.
 
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 GUT IT through! yes, do! 
 Split Ravenna Park in two! 
 Spoil the forest? What's the odds? 
 Woods were made for pagan gods; 
 
 There's no Pan to pipe to-day 
 Clear the rubbish all away! 
 Sweeter than his voice of old 
 Is the chink of yellow gold. 
 
 From the banks, his notes so clear, 
 Charmed the mild, ancestral ear 
 With their tender music thanks, 
 I'll take mine on city banks. 
 
 Yes, we know the stately trees 
 Fling their banners to the breeze, 
 Root them out! and in the holes 
 Plant the graceful trolley poles. 
 
 True, no birds will gather there, 
 But we haven't time to spare 
 For their music in the Spring 
 Let the busy wires sing! 
 
 But the brook pshaw! what's a stream 
 But a place to sit and dream? 
 That's a thing of small amount, 
 Dreams won't swell your bank account.
 
 ExtfttiUtg Qfarctrtfrtlj 
 
 Continued 
 
 "Thing of beauty" yes, I know; 
 
 "Joy forever" maybe so; 
 But in business beauty's "nil" 
 Just remember Denny Hill. 
 
 Children love it, did you say? 
 What of that? It's just their way; 
 Nothing better than a street! 
 That's the place for them to meet. 
 
 Let me tell you, there's no time 
 In this busy, bustling clime, 
 Just to moon around a park 
 Better be a money shark. 
 
 All this talk of what we owe 
 To posterity, is slow; 
 There is just one thing to say 
 On the subject will it pay?
 
 ut Alaska 
 
 I WAS a hardy sour-dough, 
 Vintage of ninety -seven ; 
 She was a gentle tenderfoot, 
 
 Just floated down from heaven. 
 
 I thought I'd staked my claim all right, 
 
 I ain't in no wise weak. 
 But, say! she jumped it right away, 
 'Fore anyone could speak. 
 
 Affections isn't just the things 
 
 You want a-lyin' loose 
 Around a mining camp you see, 
 
 They ain't no sort o* use. 
 
 I long ago had cached my heart 
 
 By way of self-defence 
 She found my cache ; she dug it up ; 
 
 And kep' it ever sence.
 
 V W OU are starting on a journey and a weary way to go, 
 t^ 1 ^ Alone, untaught, bewildered, by the many things to know, 
 
 If you win the summit's shining peaks that thrill your heart with 
 song 
 
 Then learn a little, learn a little, as you go along. 
 
 There happiness awaits you, and the joy of souls that dream, 
 And attain their dreams, though loneliness and bitterness may seem 
 To be their portion for awhile the world is not all wrong 
 So laugh a little, laugh a little, as you go along. 
 
 'Tis well to lift a steadfast eye to visions far away, 
 But feeble, groping fingers touch your garment's hem to-day; 
 The years of earthly pilgrimage are few, and death is strong 
 So love a little, love a little, as you go along.
 
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 ahc ffiinisp lUnut on 
 
 Quartermaster Harbor 
 
 With Apologies to John Kendrick Bangs. 
 
 FOUND him sitting on the beach beneath an alder tree; 
 His legs were crossed, a newspaper was spread upon his 
 knee; 
 
 But nothing in the paper his attention seemed to fix; 
 
 He just sat idly gazing at the House Boat on the Sticks. 
 
 A shabby looking boat enough, a cabin, cramped and small, 
 A sail rigged up upon the roof above it, that was all. 
 
 "But then, it's all the house I got," said he, "and when a man 
 Don't own a floatin' palace, he must do the best he can. 
 
 "There ain't much room to spare, for sure, it's neither long nor 
 
 wide; 
 And if I want to change my mind I have to go outside. 
 
 "I know there's lots o' folks that want a house that's big and fine. 
 But I don't see the use o' that, when all outdoors is mine. 
 
 "If I should want a change o* scene, it isn't hard to find; 
 Some friendly tug-boat comes along, I just hitch on behind; 
 
 "He has to do the stokin', see? and I just float along; 
 
 Or I can sail her sometimes, when the wind don't blow too strong. 
 
 "Perhaps you've noticed that a crowd and happiness don't mix. 
 So why should I be lonesome in my House Boat on the Sticks? 
 
 "And when you feel like restin' up, why, stranger, drop around; 
 I'll take the house boat off the sticks, and show you Puget Sound."
 
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 E were coming from the Northland, 
 
 Where the snowy peaks look down 
 On the restless life that pulses 
 
 Through the quaint old Russian town. 
 
 And our ship was treasure-laden; 
 
 For our hoard of precious gold 
 We had braved the mountain peril. 
 
 And the bitter Arctic cold. 
 
 After all our months of waiting, 
 After all our hopes and fears, 
 
 We could see the dear home faces 
 Smiling at us through their tears. 
 
 But our way lay through a channel 
 We must traverse warily, 
 
 Where of old some giant fingers 
 Tore a pathway for the sea. 
 
 More than one stout ship had foundered 
 
 On the rocks on either side, 
 For no light-house lifts its beacon 
 
 There to be the sailor's guide.
 
 IDfartljmt 
 
 Continued 
 
 But our ship bore bravely onward 
 Through the perils of the way, 
 
 Safely in the blackest midnight 
 As upon the fairest day. 
 
 And we asked the stalwart Captain 
 How it was that he could tell 
 
 Where the dangerous rocks were hidden; 
 Cheerily his answer fell 
 
 On the anxious hearts about him, 
 
 And his words I ne'er forgot, 
 
 "Well, I don't know where the rocks are, 
 
 But I know where they are not." 
 
 When the way looks dark before me. 
 Comfortingly comes the thought, 
 
 Though I don't know where the rocks are, 
 Still I know where they are not. 
 
 Captain David Wallace of the Cottagt City.
 
 "Home, home, to the inglenook." 
 
 The Inglenook.
 
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 HE sunlight flames on mountain peak, 
 
 And floods the valley to the brim: 
 Go forth, rejoicing, on thy way; 
 But shadows fall, and suns grow dim. 
 
 Then home, home, to the ingle nook: 
 
 When rain is on the thatch, 
 I heap the hearth-fire high and wait 
 
 For thy hand upon the latch. 
 
 The moonlight on the limpid lake 
 A path of fretted silver lies: 
 
 follow, follow, follow far; 
 
 But moons will wane, and storms arise. 
 
 Then home, home, to the ingle nook: 
 When rain is on the thatch, 
 
 1 heap the hearth-fire high and wait 
 
 For thy hand upon the latch.
 
 IF you should awake in the morning, 
 And looking away to the sea, 
 Should catch a white sail drifting slowly away, 
 And knew it would never again grace the bay, 
 And knew that the ship bore me, 
 
 Over the blue. 
 
 Dear little heart in the harbor behind. 
 Would it matter to you? 
 
 If, treading the dusty highway, 
 In the busy noon of the day. 
 The steps that had wandered near yours, my sweet. 
 Should suddenly cease, and the oncoming feet 
 Should trample their traces away, 
 
 And then, if you knew 
 That the path would no more bear the print of my feet. 
 
 Would it matter to you? 
 
 If you, in the dusky twilight, 
 
 Watching the stars in the sky, 
 
 Should know that the heart that had loved you afar 
 The heart in which you were the bright, guiding star, 
 Had sighed you a last good-bye 
 
 And oh! if you knew. 
 
 That it broke with the weight of its silence O Love, 
 Would it matter to you?
 
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 OOM ! guns, from the vessels at anchor ; 
 
 Blow! blasts, from a hundred mills; 
 Boom! till the jubilant echoes 
 Burst from the distant hills. 
 
 Burn! skies, with Italian azure; 
 
 Wind from the North, sweep down 
 On the sentinel mountains and strip them 
 
 Cloudless, from base to crown. 
 
 Lift, like a bride, sedately, 
 
 Thy soft mist veil, and be 
 Revealed in thine opaline splendor, 
 
 O beautiful inland sea. 
 
 Whiteness of snow on the mountains, 
 Whiteness of bloom on the bough, 
 
 Green of the new-leaved woodlands, 
 Be never so fair as now. 
 
 Sweeping from ocean to ocean, 
 
 The battleship fleet is bound 
 'Frolic or fight," from Hampton Roads 
 
 To the harbors of Puget Sound. 
 
 The welcome of brothers awaits you! 
 
 The flag we unfurl to the sun, 
 Is the flag that you fly at the mast-head 
 
 The East and the West are one. 
 
 And one they must be forever! 
 Stand by! for we need you here;
 
 IjaU to 
 
 Continued 
 
 We have won the West for the nation, 
 We must hold it in strength, not in fear. 
 
 We have whitened the pathless prairie 
 With the bones of horse and man, 
 
 When the painted savages circled 
 And closed on the lone caravan; 
 
 We have fought, in the sand of the desert, 
 The hunger the thirst that kills; 
 
 We have blazed a trail through the forest; 
 We have blasted a way through the hills; 
 
 The pulse of the Pilgrims beats in us: 
 
 Eager to spend and be spent, 
 We have builded an Empire proudly 
 
 On the rim of the continent. 
 
 The future is big with meaning: 
 We will front it, whatever it be, 
 
 With our backs to the Rocky Mountains, 
 And our faces toward the sea. 
 
 Then hail! the American Navy! 
 
 May its strength and its fame increase 
 The bulwark of freedom and progress 
 
 The bond of the nation's peace. 
 
 Shout, then, a mighty welcome; 
 
 Let it echo to old Rainier 
 Here's to the Atlantic Squadron! 
 
 And the man that sent it here !
 
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 ON the rough Atlantic waters, 
 Ride the war king's grey-robed daughters, 
 Wait the battleships, impatient for the coming of their mate ; 
 With her great heart throbbing loudly, 
 All her pennons waving proudly, 
 Every man on board a hero, she has passed the Golden Gate. 
 
 Offspring of the mild Pacific, 
 
 With accoutrements terrific, 
 She is panoplied in armor like a daughter of the gods; 
 
 Are there foes against her banded? 
 
 She will meet them single-handed 
 Rush exultant to the conflict in the face of fearful odds. 
 
 Leagues on leagues stretch out before her. 
 
 Alien skies will darken o'er her, 
 She will fly before the tempest, like the lordly albatross, 
 
 On unwearied pinion sweeping, 
 
 While the Nation's heart is keeping 
 Vigil with her, as she passes underneath the Southern Cross. 
 
 Builded of the iron taken 
 
 From the mountain's breast unshaken, 
 She will buffet with the billows she will laugh the waves to scorn ; 
 
 On her giant strength relying, 
 
 All the storm king's wrath defying. 
 Staunch and true in every fiber, she has proudly swept the Horn.
 
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 To the Northward! Straight and steady! 
 
 Every gun is manned and ready! 
 Twice she touches port, but turning, swings far out to sea again ; 
 
 Swiftly through the darkness going 
 
 Not a signal light is showing, 
 To betray her to the fury of the old sea dogs of Spain. 
 
 But unscathed, and eager-hearted 
 
 For the fight as when she started, 
 She is coming down the home stretch, all her perils safely passed : 
 
 How we swung in line to meet her! 
 
 How the guns boomed out to greet her ! 
 As she bore down bravely on us, with Old Glory at her mast !
 
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 HEY say that life's a battle, lad, I think you'll find it true ; 
 he same old conflict rages, though the weapons may be 
 
 new; 
 
 But in every kind of warfare that is waged beneath the sun, 
 The contest is decided by the man behind the gun. 
 
 There are many hidden dangers that a soldier never sees 
 Blind batteries to blast you, and sharpshooters in the trees, 
 And whether you will falter, or the foe will have to run, 
 Will depend upon the mettle of the man behind the gun. 
 
 There will come supremest moments, in the battle for the right, 
 When the deck is cleared for action, and the foe is just in sight, 
 Then, oh then, you must be ready, for Manilas are not won 
 When a sluggard or a coward is the man behind the gun. 
 
 What though the foe grows boastful, and counts up his array 
 Of armies and of battleships to fill you with dismay 
 Keep up your target practice! vict'ry's certain as the sun! 
 For it's not the heavy cannon it's the man behind the gun !
 
 "All her snowy pinions spread." 
 
 Outicard Bound.
 
 HARBORS are for unused ships: 
 Mine must sail the seas, 
 All her snowy pinions spread 
 To the welcoming breeze. 
 
 She must visit lands afar; 
 
 Many precious things 
 Wait her where in distant ports 
 
 She will fold her wings. 
 
 She must face the angry gale 
 
 When the storms arise 
 Test her strength and prove her right 
 
 To bear the flag she flies. 
 
 Should she drift, a broken wreck, 
 
 Helpless and undone 
 Better that than anchored here 
 
 Rotting in the sun ! 
 
 Westward blows the wind, and lo, 
 
 Where the fair, new Day 
 Lifts his banner on the hills! 
 
 She must not delay; 
 
 Hoist the sails, and let them breathe 
 
 Deep and full and round! 
 For the sea is calling her 
 
 She is outward bound!
 
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