<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119052" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nansen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To drift with thee, not strive against thy tide,<br>All-powerful Nature! to pursue thy law,<br>Attentive—with devout and childlike awe<br>Heark'ning unto thy voice, and none beside:<br>To drift with thee! With thee for friend and guide<br>In fragile bark, careless of cold or thaw,<br>To brave the ice-pack and the dread sea-maw!—<br>So are man's conquests won, so glorified.<br>The truest compass is the seeing soul.<br>Oh, wond'ring earth! did not thy spirit glow,<br>Calling to mind the deathless Genoese,<br>As Nansen, pilot of the frozen Pole,<br>Like a young Viking rode the icy floe,<br>Wresting their secret from the Arctic Seas?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119052" data-title="Nansen de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="To drift with thee, not strive against thy tide,/All-powerful Nature! to pursue thy law,/Attentive—with devout and childlike awe/Heark'ning unto thy voice, and none beside:/To drift with thee! With thee for friend and guide/In fragile bark, care..."></div> </div> </div>

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