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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Writhing their stunted limbs,<BR>
XVII. Greenland<BR>I. Further Exploration of Spitsbergen<BR>
I might have happily lived some other childhood.<BR>Place of absorbing snow, itself to be<BR>
I know,<BR>My soul lies cracked; and when, in its despair,<BR>
Mère and Père Chose are walking away from the<BR>Sphinx of questioning substance, or a sort<BR>
Green lilac buds appear that won't survive<BR>shaded by live oaks and bottlebrush trees<BR>
Is dumb; he is the mute white stony shape<BR>In stone waves and rock waters, far from day,<BR>
The weight of being born into exile is lifted.<BR>Summer bees were saying<BR>
And the worlds—skiffs rudderless, rolling on—<BR>One flash of eye, or blow one clarion-blast;<BR>
I do not betray you, I still go forward,<BR>Before those virile women!<BR></FONT></DIV>
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