ALASKA.
Joaquin Miller
ce built, ice bound and ice bounded, - Such cold seas of silence! such room!
- Such snow-light, such sea light confounded
- With thunders that smite like a doom!
- Such grandeur! such glory! such gloom!
- Hear that boom! Hear that deep distant boom
- Of an avalanche hurled
- Down this unfinished world!
- Ice seas! and ice summits! ice spaces
- In splendor of white, as God's throne!
- Ice worlds to the pole! and ice places
- Untracked, and unnamed, and unknown!
- Hear that boom! Hear the grinding, the groan
- Of the ice-gods in pain! Hear the moan
- Of yon ice mountain hurled
- Down this unfinished world.