Alaska: The Great Country (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Alaska: The Great Country<br><br>Soul-sick am I O God of little things Small pleasures aspirations creeds desires; Low valleys slender brooks and hearthside fires. I want the sweep of wide triumphant wings; The halleluiah that the ocean sings; The wind that roars like beasts and never tires! Great God my soul aches to the mighty lgres Of Nature To men heritaged as kings Who dare aspire achieve not counting cost So that a deed be done that reaches far A new land won; a perilous water crossed; So that a man coming to his last rest Shall wear upon his brow the splendid star That leads the glorious empire - builders West!<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.