Classic Poem

Love , powerful love, impatient of controul,
Softens the heart, and animates the soul;
That love refin'd that can the magic boast
Of warmth unchang'd amidst eternal frost:
Witness, fair Ajutt, pride of icy plains,
Where darkness half the year triumphant reigns,
And faithful gen'rous Anningait, the youth,
By love taught softness, by that softness truth:
Both flourish'd sweet on Greenland's rigid coast,
Pure as its snow, and constant as its frost;
No polish'd arts of specious vice they knew,
The youth was noble, and the maid was true;
From earliest dawn their charms no rival saw,
By Nature bless'd beyond her usual law;
No Greenland-swain like Anningait could dare,
To fix th' harpoon, or rouse the Whale to war;
From his firm hand the unerring jav'lin flew,
His bark deep loaded by the Seal he flew:
Bless'd in his friends, illustrious was his race,
Grac'd by his birth, his birth his actions grace.