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You, who have conquered the wilderness, / You, who are building the land, / You, whom I knew in the loneliness, / To you, who will understand, / Rhymes I have rhymed of the lonely ways, / Stories I tell o'er again -- / Wandering days by the camp-fire's blaze, / Fancy and frolic and pain.
Far in the silence I seem to see / Shadowy forms in the mist, / Moulding the key of a land to be, / Steeled to its terrors resist; / Daring it all, where the shadows fall, / Lengthening far in the night; / Answering ever to nature's call, / Turning the darkness to light.