{"id":17098,"date":"2011-05-08T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=17098"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:54:51","slug":"manvotional-call-of-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/manvotional-call-of-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: Call of the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"River<\/h3>\n

Call of the Wild<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By: Robert W. Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you gazed on naked grandeur
\nwhere there’s nothing else to gaze on,
\nSet pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore,
\nBig mountains heaved to heaven, which the
\nblinding sunsets blazon,
\nBlack canyons where the rapids rip and roar?
\nHave you swept the visioned valley with the
\ngreen stream streaking through it,
\nSearched the Vastness for a something you have lost?
\nHave you strung your soul to silence?
\nthen for God’s sake go and do it;
\nHear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost.<\/p>\n

Have you wandered in the wilderness, the sagebrush desolation,
\nThe bunch-grass levels where the cattle graze?
\nHave you whistled bits of rag-time at the end of all creation,
\nAnd learned to know the desert’s little ways?
\nHave you camped upon the foothills,
\nhave you galloped o’er the ranges,
\nHave you roamed the arid sun-lands through and through?
\nHave you chummed up with the mesa?
\nDo you know its moods and changes?
\nThen listen to the Wild \u2014 it’s calling you.<\/p>\n

Have you known the Great White Silence,
\nnot a snow-gemmed twig aquiver?
\n(Eternal truths that shame our soothing lies.)
\nHave you broken trail on snowshoes?
\nmushed your huskies up the river,
\nDared the unknown, led the way, and clutched the prize?
\nHave you marked the map’s void spaces,
\nmingled with the mongrel races,
\nFelt the savage strength of brute in every thew?<\/p>\n

And though grim as hell the worst is,
\ncan you round it off with curses?
\nThen hearken to the Wild \u2014 it’s wanting you.
\nHave you suffered, starved and triumphed,
\ngroveled down, yet grasped at glory,
\nGrown bigger in the bigness of the whole?
\n“Done things ” just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story,
\nSeeing through the nice veneer the naked soul?
\nHave you seen God in His splendors,
\nheard the text that nature renders?
\n(You’ll never hear it in the family pew.)
\nThe simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things \u2014
\nThen listen to the Wild \u2014 it’s calling you.<\/p>\n

They have cradled you in custom,
\nthey have primed you with their preaching,
\nThey have soaked you in convention through and through;
\nThey have put you in a showcase;
\nyou’re a credit to their teaching \u2014
\nBut can’t you hear the Wild? \u2014 it’s calling you.
\nLet us probe the silent places,
\nlet us seek what luck betide us;
\nLet us journey to a lonely land I know.
\nThere’s a whisper on the night-wind,
\nthere’s a star agleam to guide us,
\nAnd the Wild is calling, calling … let us go.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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