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Title: The Arctic Queen
Author: Unknown
Release Date: January 21, 2006 [EBook #17568]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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The Arctic Queen.
To
DR. ELISHA KENT KANE,
COMMANDER OF THE GRINNELL EXPEDITION
IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN--
THIS POEM IS DEDICATED:
WITH SINCEREST ADMIRATION OF HIS ENTERPRISE, COURAGE AND HEROIC SELF-DEVOTION,
AND OF HIS SUCCESS AS DISCOVERER
OF THE
OPEN POLAR SEA.
THE ARCTIC QUEEN.
PART FIRST.
OENE, of all the chilly Arctics, queen,
Ascended to her everlasting throne
Built on the steadfast centre of the world,
And waited for the middle hour of night,
Now swiftly coming, to convene her court.
Set in an ocean of perpetual calm
Was the fair island honoured by her reign;
Slowly around her rolled the Frigid Zone,
Dim in the mystic moonlight far away,--
A silvery ring