THE TOO-MUCH-GOLD RIVER.

Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 75, 25 September 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE TOO-MUCH-GOLD RIVER.

The Indians report a fabulous river to be situated beyond and to be far rioher than the Klondyke. Far up the stern-piecipioed Klondyke, In the Arctic drear, we are told, There speeds a mysterious river, ' The .River of Too Much Gold.' Oh say, ye powers of darkneßs ! Did the Yukon Indians dream The longing they roused in our heart-chorda When they named us that hidden Btream ? There once was an El Dorado Men orazed their lives to behold ; But what was the merely Golden To the Eiver of Too Muoh Gold? Oh, if weoould stand on its border, And after onr sacks were dissent, Kick round us still beaches of nuggets, Would we feel we. could be content? Would we fieel, as we shouldered our milli»n — Fledge of pleasures ten thousand fold — That %yen then this river Was a River of Too Muoh Gold? Oh, when will the heart of mortal !He ready to cry ' Enough !' , And what is the use of the struggle For the ' stuff ' if it does not stuff? But however it be,<l am longing As though it would free me from care, For the banks of that Arctic river, And a little of what is there. .. — W. D. LIdHTEUiLIi.