Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-03-29
4 sOSG or TIE NORTH.
BT LIZZIE DoILN

Away! away cried the stout Sir john
"While the blossoms are on the trees:
For the summer 10 short and the time speed. on.
As we sail for the northern seas,
aoi gallant Crozier and brave FitE-James.
We will startle the world. trow.
When We and a way through the northern seas
That never was found till now
good stout ship Is the Erebus
As ever unfurled sail.
And the Terror will match with ns brave QUE
As ever outrode gale"
20 they bade farewell to their pleasant homes.
To tile hills and valleys green
With three hearty cheers for their native isle
And three for the English queen.
They sped them away beyond cape and bay,
Where the day and the hight are one
Where the kissing light in the heavens grew bright
And famed like midnishtIsun.
There was nausht below save the fields Of snow,
That stretched to the icy pole:
And the EsQuimaux, in his strange canoe.
Was the only living soul
Along the coast like gisnt'h host
The glittering icebergs frowned.
Or they met on the main like o battle plain
And crashed with afearf III sound
The seal and the bear with a curious stare
Looked down from the frozen heights.
And the stars in the skies, with their Erea Wild eyes
peered out from the Northern Lights
The gallent Crozier and brave FItz james.
And even the stout Sir John.
Felt doubt like n chill through their wsun n,alt
thrill
Asst they urged the coed ships uu.
They sped them away, beyond cape and bay,
Where even the tear drops freeze:
But no way was found by a strait or sound
To sail through the northern seas
They sped them away, beyond cape and bay.
And they sought. but they sought in vain.
For no way was found through the ice around
Toreturn to their homes again.
Then the wild waves rose, and the waters froze
TIL they closed like prison wall,
And the cebergs stood in the sulen food,
Like their iailers grim aud tall.
o God! o God 1T was hard to die
In that prison house OF ice!
For what was fame or mighty name,
When life was the fearful price &:
The gallant Crozier and the brave Titl.Jsmes
And even the stout Sir John,
Had secret dread and their hopes all hed,
As the weeks and the months passed op,
Then the Ice King came, with his eyes Of flame,
And looked on that fated crew;
His chilling breath was as cold as DEATH
And 1t pierced their warm hearts through
heavy sleep. that was dark and deep.
Came over their weary eyes,
And they dreamed strange dreams OF the hill. All,
streams,
And the blue OF their native skies
The Christian chimes OF the good old time,
Were heard in each dying ear,
And the dancing feet and tho voices sweet
oftheir wives and their children dear.
But it faded awsy-awAy-away.
Like sound on distant shore
And deeper and deeper grew the slecp.
Till they slept 10 wake no more!
Oh. the sailors wife and tho sailors child
They will weep, and watch, and pray:
And tho Lady Jane she will hope in vain
As the long years pass away!
Tho gallant Crozier and the brave Fitz-Iancs,
And the good Sir John have found.
An open way to a Huiet bay
And port where we all arc bound
Let the waters roar on tho ice. bound .hore
That circles tho frozen pole.
But there is no sleep and no grave SO dccp
That can hold human s9pl