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POEMS AND SONGS
When with filial fond remembrance
Tenderly he sought and questioned,
Searching for his people’s pathways—
Names and graves and rusty weapons,
Stones and tools their answer gave him.
Through primeval Asian forests,
Over steppes and sands of deserts,
Neath a thousand years that moldered,
Saw he caravan-made footsteps
Seek a new home in the Northland.
And as they the rivers followed,
Followed them his thought abundant,
Into Nature’s All full-flowing.—
See his restless soul’s creation!
Harmony of truth he yearned for,
Found it not, but wonder-working
New discoveries and pathways,
— Like those alchemists aforetime
Who, though gold was all their seeking,
Found not that, but mighty forces,
Which to-day the world are moving. —
Deepest ground of all his being
Was the polar power of contrast,
For his thought, to music wakened
By the touch of Northern Saga,
Vibrated melodious longing,
Toward the South forever tending.
In his eye the lambent fire,
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