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The Masters of the Wilderness

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A STUDY OF
THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY
FROM ITS ORIGIN TO
MODERN TIMES

"I am the land that listens, I am the land that broods;

Steeped in eternal beauty, crystalline waters and woods.

Long have I waited lonely, shunned as a thing accurst,

Monstrous, moody, pathetic, the last of the lands and the first;

Visioning camp-fires at twilight, sad with a longing forlorn,

Feeling my womb o'er-pregnant with the seed of cities unborn.

Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway,

And I wait for the men who will win me—and I will not be won in a day."

—Service, "The Law of the Yukon."