Antarctica

  The ice was here, the ice was there, 
  The ice was all around: 
  It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, 
  Like noises in a swound. 
   - COLERIDGE.

  And the deed of high endeavour 
    Was no more to the favoured few. 
  But brain and heart were the measure 
    Of what every man might do. 
   - RENNELL RODD.

by Charles Turley

                ...Yet I argue not 
  Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot 
  Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer 
  Right onward. 
   - MILTON.

BY SIR J. M. BARRIE, BART.

  By mutual confidence and mutual aid 
  Great deeds are done and great discoveries made. 
   - ANON.

                     Come what may 
  Time and the hour runs through the darkest day. 
   - SHAKESPEARE.

  Do ye, by star-eyed Science led, explore 
  Each lonely ocean, each untrodden shore.

  So far as I can venture to offer an opinion on such a matter, 
  the purpose of our being in existence, the highest object that 
  human beings can set before themselves, is not the pursuit of 
  any such chimera as the annihilating of the unknown; but it is