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The Wain upon the northern steep     Descends and lifts away.     Oh I will sit me down and weep     For bones in Africa.     For pay and medals, name and rank,     Things that he has not found,     He hove the Cross to heaven and sank     The pole-star underground.     And now he does not even see     Signs of the nadir roll     At night over the ground where he     Is buried with the pole.

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