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Rh "Flow," he says, "and flow along, but you cannot flow away from us; All the world's ice will never keep you far from us; Every man that heeds your call takes the way that leads him— The one way that's his way, and lives his own life: Starve or laugh, the game goes on, and on goes the river; Gold or no, they go their way—twelve men together.

"Twelve," he says, "who sold their shame for a lure you call too fair for them— You that laugh and flow to the same word that urges them: Twelve who left the old town shining in the sunset, Left the weary street and the small safe days: Twelve who knew but one way out, wide the way or narrow: Twelve who took the frozen chance and laid their lives on yellow.

"Flow by night and flow by day, nor ever once be seen by them; Flow, freeze, and flow, till time shall hide the bones of them;