--==* Snow Maiden *==--

Amy was a lovely maid

in furs of ermine pale.

She drove a sled of twenty dogs

delivering the mail.

But laughter seldom lit her face

No smiles she ever showed.

For every sack which came from Nome

left her with letters owed.

Along the mighty Yukon flood

to Dawson, she would fly.

But when she made her camp at night

she'd sit alone, and cry.

While on the trail, one lonely day

she came upon a sight.

An ancient chief, of mighty powers,

who recognized her plight.

He taught her of the loving things

she'd never thought to give.

And led her to a fabled land

where gentle lovers live.

The chief is gone a dozen moons

his lands now slowly fail.

It's said he killed a sacred cow,

and rots in Whitehorse jail.

But his are never empty dreams

his thoughts are still alive.

He watches silently, somewhere,

And knows they will survive.

For once or twice in every moon

he looks upon the trail.

And finds his Amy, flying there,

With laughter, sled and mail.

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