L’Envoi + 

You who have lived in the Land, + 

You who have trusted the trail; + 

You who are strong to withstand, + 

You who are swift to assail; + 

Songs have I sung to beguile, + 

Vintage of desperate years + 

Hard as a harlot’s smile, + 

Bitter as unshed tears. + 

Little of joy or mirth, + 

Little of ease I sing; + 

Sagas of men of earth, + 

Humanly suffering, + 

Such as you all have done; + 

Savagely faring forth, + 

Sons of the midnight sun, + 

Argonauts of the North. + 

Far in the land God forgot + 

Glimmers the lure of your trail; + 

Still in your lust are you taught + 

Even to win is to fail. + 

Still must you follow and fight + 

Under the vampire wing; + 

There in the long, long night + 

Hoping and vanquishing. + 

Husbandmen of the Wild, + 

Reaping a barren gain; + 

Scourged by desire, reconciled + 

Unto disaster and pain; + 

These my songs are for you, + 

You who are seared with the brand: + 

God knows I have tried to be true; + 

Please God you will understand. + 