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Great hearted brother to the wilderness, / Comrade of Wind and Sea! Interpreter
Of nomad Nature! Ere the quick'ning stir / Of Spring-sap thrills the wood from sullen stress
Of Winter's spell--away from throngèd press / Of urban ways thy wild feet wander far
Tracking the steps of some white Northern star / Whose rays are beacon to thy restlessness.
Weird mystic of the Northland's mystery, / Thou 'front'st the Unseen Shadow, nor dost fear
To meet the Scarlet Hunter on the trail; / Pagan as Pan; to all things sylvan dear,
Nature's own vagrant, buoyant, driftless, free-- / All winds and woods and waters cry thee hail!