Book IV The Vortex
He burned a hole in the frozen muck;
He scratched the icy mould;
And there in six-foot dirt he struck
A sack or so of gold.
He burned a hole in the Decalogue,
And then it came about—
For Fortune’s only a lousy rogue—
His “pocket” petered out.
And lo! it was but a year all told,
When there in the shadow grim,
But six feet deep in the icy mould,
They burned a hole for him.
—“The Yukoner.”