withstand,
You who are swift to assail:
_Songs have I sung to beguile,
Vintage of desperate years,
Hard as a harlot's smile,
Bitter as unshed tears._

Little of joy or mirth,
Little of ease I sing;
Sagas of men of earth
Humanly suffering,
_Such as you all have done;
Savagely faring forth,
Sons of the midnight sun,
Argonauts of the North._

Far in the land God forgot
Glimmers the lure of your trail;
Still in your lust are you taught
Even to win is to fail.
_Still you must follow and fight
Under the vampire wing;
There in the long, long night
Hoping and vanquishing._

Husbandman of the Wild,
Reaping a barren gain;
Scourged by desire, reconciled
Unto disaster and pain;
_These, my songs, are for you,
You who are seared with the brand.
God knows I have tried to be true;
Please God you will understand._

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