Nansen

TO-drifl with thee, not against thy tide, AU-powerful Nature! to pursue thy law Altenttve with devout and chlldlike awe aeark'uing unto thy volee, and none beslde ■ i'o dilit with thee! With thee for friend and' In. iragile bark, careless of eold or thaw To brave the ice-pack and dread seamaw!- o are man's couquests wou, so glorified The truest oompuss is the seeiuu soul Tf ?1Ki'ring Earth! did not thy spirit glow, Calllngtomiud the deathless Geuoese, ás -Nanseu, pilot of the frozea Pole Like a young Viking rode the icy doe, Wresüug thuir secret froin the Arctic Seas? -Florence Eael Coats.íq Harper'a Maga.'dneior November. m