Alaskan Balladry--III

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Title:     Alaskan Balladry--III
Author: Eugene Field [More Titles by Field]

(Skans in Love.)

I am like the wretched seal
Wounded by a barbed device--
Helpless fellow! how I bellow,
Floundering on the jagged ice!

Sitka's beauty is the steel
That hath wrought this piteous woe:
Yet would I rather die
Than recover from the blow!

Still I'd rather live than die,
Grievous though my torment be;
Smite away, but, I pray,
Smite no victim else than me!

[The end]
Eugene Field's poem: Alaskan Balladry--III

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