EPOCH OF GREAT RE-GLACIATION 
AGAIN thick lies the ice and gathered snow ; 
Green vales are hid, and rivers cease to flow. 
High hills are passing slowly out of sight, 
As o'er their brows great glacier streams unite. 
Life, such as could, has far fled in alarm, 5 
And left the scene behind a deathlike calm. 
Scotia and Erin now from side to side 
Are clad in ice ; and glaciers coast ward glide, 
Breaking in bergs, along the western tide. 
North lands in Albion once again are sleeping 10 
Entombed in snow. And glacier streams are creeping 
To join the North sea waters, now froze o'er 
In sheet compact to Scandinavia's shore. 
Concealed in ice does Scandinavia lie ; 
And on to east, o'er scenes of Muscovy, 1 5 
The sheet is spread. But there not as of old 
Obtains the ice so firm or far a hold. 
Nor is Germania, though in part spread o'er, 
So much encumbered as she was of yore. 
And from such ice as came in times gone by 20 
The Netherlands enjoy immunity. 
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