Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-05-31
Selett 4oetrg,
From the Knirkerbocker.
THE LOST EXPLORERS.

ESQ north, by party OF fourteen men COM
manded 10y Messrs. Stewart and Anderson,
sent ont by the Governor of the Hudson's
Bay Company. Il cir bones lie buried in
the sand within an extent of twelve miles
The region is represented to be dreary in the
extreme; not blade of grass nor a stick Of
timber 10 be seen. No game of any kind
could be found"
Far in the frozen zone, where, piled forever,
Huge Crystal mountains pierce the clear,
cold sky,
And fields Of ice, no summers warmth can
Unchansing le
Far from the Es9uimaux's rude mossclad
dwelling,
Ger seas untraversed by his light canoe
Bones bleaching in the snowa tale are tel
ling,
fearful yet true!
A desert Isle, washed by the Northern
There irowns defiance tc adventurous
pride:
Frost.bound in silence, naught Of life or mo-
tiun
Adorns its side.
No sound is heard save when the winds Of
winter
Howl round its wastes and sweep its lone
ly shore,
Or drifting cebcrgs fercey crash and splin-
ter,
With sullcn roar.
On that drenr coast, brave men who vainly
cherished
Longings again to tread their native land,
With watching worn, by cold and hunger
per!shed-
A noble band
Crushed in by moving foe or torn asundcr,
Their vessels sunk beneath the treacherons
AS the crews fed, in mute suspense and won
der,
A watery grave.
Days, months, and years upon that Arctic is
land,
They bore the binding snow aud piercing
gale,
But never saw fro IN shore or icy highland
The distant sail
The circling sun, in low ray family beaming
| No genial glow OF summer round them
spread,
And at his set, the phantom lights were
streaming
Far over head
In tina. long polar night, with many story
OF uerils past they whiled the wlntry hour,
Or sung the ancient songs OF England's gio-
ry,
Her fame and power.
Storm, darkness, cold and solitude Of defy
ing,
By pangs Of gnawing hunger only moved
Each lived TO cheer hi 9 fellow man, and dy
ing.
Still faithful proved
When, bending DER the couch of the depart
ing
To hear in whispered accents, home fare
> reH!
From every hollow eye, the tear just start
ing,
Fro=e ere it fell.
The last sad rites performed with true devt
They carved his name with unaTal!in
i care
6 Upon the ice mound raised beside that ocea
In lone despair
70 Thus, one by one they died, the few tru'
80 hearted,
% Wor,lier by far Of Albions honored pag'
% Than they who fought and bled, whose sou
- departed
% In battle rage.
T. What though no marble tell their tragic at
To icr-bound mariners DER the Northei
I'd And waing winds around the landsca!
hVary
Their requiem be
Where'er their country's banner proudly q
p ing
In foreign climes, declares her world-w
NC sway
Few Of her sons can boast Of fame undying
~ Greater than they.
he Long as that isle shall lie, by man iorsaker
And awe the mariner near its rugged si'
The names OF those who rest there shall av
ken
nd A nations pride.
of Columbia's Franklin taught the bolt frt
ted Heaven
- To rush to earth along its harmless pat
ere By him OF England warning sad was given
nd BY lingering death
ub,
True patriots they none sought with higl
daring
10. To rule The wave or lightning fierce
rr tame,
ia And kindred lands, though covered wide
rree sharing
Their common fam
Then haste the day when skill with scie
- blending
In arts of peace, shall join each dist
,ch, shore,
mp And through the chain electric We are sc
I'M ing
Kind words once nor'
s. While Britain loves TO proise the bold en'
Pa. vor
OF youthful hope, TO brave the p
- gloom,
Be it our cure and pride to guard foreve
" at Her veterans ton
hich
The following description Of d confr
r.,