THE CHILKOOT POST.
_Chi 1 .loot Barracks, Haines , Alaska.___—
_ Published W i tho ut E xpe rise to the Government* _,_f.
Vol. vf -Friday, September 4th, , 1925,-^°*
50^ quarterly, * $S,00 Yearly,
OHILKAT MOUNTAINS.
Oh the gilding glory of the great Sun-God
As he kisses the Ch.il.kat hills,
Lifting the fog from the river and bog
To the mountains 1 flowing rills,
!Tis a sight to calm the restless soul
In this world of shifting might;
Teaching patience and love and deathless faith
In one Law that1 is ever right*
I wonder why--the vaulted sky
Arched over eternal hills
Can play on the harp of a restless soul,
And furnish hopeful thrills?
-C.P. W,
AFTERWARDS.
Th^ years go by and a man forgets
Old barricades in the bitter fray,
The ancient wrongs, and the dull regrets
He knew so well in a younger day,
The slogging hikes and the sudden fears
That haunted him in themud and rain
Are gilded soon in the passing years,
Wiped clean again of the crimson stain.
".Ne^er again’ f is the soldier’s cry,
And deep in his soul he means it all;
But after months have drifted by
He leans again to the bugle call,
Soon forgetting the Army slum,
The blasting shell in the swampy glen
His dreams sweep back to the rolling drum
And a life on the open road again.
The reveille of a rainy dawn
An endless road with a gun and pack,
A ’*bawling out” when the line is drawn
With ne^sr a chance to answer back,
Bro/en dreams where the Fokkers drift,
Even the stockade dull and grey,
Drudgeries of a K, P. shift
They all look good, when you’re far away.
Grantland Rice