Homeward thus he came rejoicing With his Chilkoot on her snow-shoes While her eyes with love beamed on And her voice said in its sweetness "I will follow you my husband; ' Irodow you whe'er you lean me" Bear and forbear was their motto Chosen for their future guidance As life's pathway they would journe Soon they spied a fat gold seeker And at him they rushed with fiercer: Hugged him in their tight embraces Hugged him till his breath had left I Thus secured their wedding dinner And their journey home was ended. But alas for snow white Chilkoot; , As a famine came upon them, She was stricken with gold fever, Taken from that wedding dinner, From that burly, fat gold seeker. Then Kolondyke was in sorrow Deep bereavement for his Chilkoot, As he laid her a snowdrift In that icy Klondyke region . In the laud of the Alaska. Prone to wander, then, it made him, And he ventured oil au iceberg Ont into the cold, deep water. Then he drifted toward the sunset Down the waters of the Yukon river drifting, drifting qnward, From the yellow Klondyke gold-field. To the lima of the Here-after.
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