Frost pictures.
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And seas where, drifting on a raft of ice,
The she-bear rears her young; and cliffs so high,
The dark-winged birds that emulate their rise
Melt through the pale blue sky.
The she-bear rears her young; and cliffs so high,
The dark-winged birds that emulate their rise
Melt through the pale blue sky.
There, all night long, with far-diverging rays
And stalking shades, the red Auroras glow;
From the keen heaven, mock suns with pallid blaze
Light up the Arctic snow.
And stalking shades, the red Auroras glow;
From the keen heaven, mock suns with pallid blaze
Light up the Arctic snow.
Guide me, I pray, along those waves remote,
That deep unstartled from its primal rest;
Some errant sail, the fisher's lone, light boat,
Borne waif-like o'er its breast!
That deep unstartled from its primal rest;
Some errant sail, the fisher's lone, light boat,
Borne waif-like o'er its breast!
Lead me, I pray, where never shallop's keel
Brake the dull ripples throbbing to their caves;
Where the mailed glacier with his armed heel
Spurs the resisting waves!
Brake the dull ripples throbbing to their caves;
Where the mailed glacier with his armed heel
Spurs the resisting waves!
