I have no time for play.

That so fatigues a soul,

I never have seen the Pole.

  ’Tis said that in that favored place There is no heat or drouth; And that, whichever way you turn, You’re looking south-by-south. Some say there is a flagstaff there, Some say there is a hole. Think of the years that I have lived And never have seen the Pole!

There is no heat or drouth;

You’re looking south-by-south.

Some say there is a hole.

And never have seen the Pole!

  The parson a hundred times is right— We ought to stay at home. I’m an old man, I’m eighty-three, I have no call to roam. And yet if I could somehow find The time—God bless my soul!—  I think that I would die content If I only could see the Pole!

We ought to stay at home.

I have no call to roam.

The time—God bless my soul!—

If I only could see the Pole!

[Pg 100]  My brother has seen Baraboo, If so he speak the truth; My wife and son they both have been As far as to Duluth; My cousin cruised to Eastport, Maine, On a ship that carried coal; I’ve been as far as Mackinac— But I never have seen the Pole!

[Pg 100]

If so he speak the truth;

As far as to Duluth;

On a ship that carried coal;

But I never have seen the Pole!

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