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HJEMME IGJEN

Vår sak er det å finne veien som fører dit: En lang vei, en
vanskelig vei, kan hende; men det kaller oss, og vi må gå.

Rotfestet dypt i vår natur, dypt i enhver av oss, er vågelystens
ånd; ropet fra villmarken dirrer under alle våre handlinger, og gjør
livet dypere og høiere og edlere.»

«Have you known the Great White Silence. . . . Have you broken
trail on snowshoes ?

xMushed your huskies up the river. Dåred the unknown, led
the way, and clutched the price?

Have you suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down, vet
grasped at glory?

Done things just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story.

Have you seen — — —

The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do
things —

Then listen to the Wild, — it’s calling you.

Let us probe the silent piaces, let us seek what luck betide us.

Let us journey to a lonely land I know, there’s a whisper on
the night*wind, there’s a star agleam to guide us.

And the Wild is calling, calling, — let us go!»

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