Train Dogs

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3 id="id00628" style="margin-top: 3em">THE TRAIN DOGS</h3> <p id="id00629" style="margin-top: 2em">Out of the night and the north;<br>   Savage of breed and of bone,<br> Shaggy and swift comes the yelping band,<br> Freighters of fur from the voiceless land<br>   That sleeps in the Arctic zone.<br> </p> <p id="id00630">Laden with skins from the north,<br>   Beaver and bear and raccoon,<br> Marten and mink from the polar belts,<br> Otter and ermine and sable pelts—<br>   The spoils of the hunter's moon.<br> </p> <p id="id00631">Out of the night and the north,<br>   Sinewy, fearless and fleet,<br> Urging the pack through the pathless snow,<br> The Indian driver, calling low,<br>   Follows with moccasined feet.<br> </p> <p id="id00632">Ships of the night and the north,<br>   Freighters on prairies and plains,<br> Carrying cargoes from field and flood<br> They scent the trail through their wild red blood,<br>   The wolfish blood in their veins.<br> </p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />