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    The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
    The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
    The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
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    The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

    By Robert W. (Robert William) Service

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses - Robert W. (Robert William) Service

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Spell of the Yukon, by Robert Service

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      Title: The Spell of the Yukon

      Author: Robert Service

      Release Date: July 11, 2008 [EBook #207]

      Last Updated: January 15, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SPELL OF THE YUKON ***

      Produced by A. Light, G.L. Warner, and David Widger

      THE SPELL OF THE YUKON AND OTHER VERSES

      by Robert W. Service

      [British-born Canadian Poet — 1874-1958.]

      [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, Songs of a Sourdough.]

      [This etext pretty much matches the American editions of 1907 and 1916.]

      To C. M.

      CONTENTS

      The Land God Forgot

      The Spell of the Yukon

      The Heart of the Sourdough

      The Three Voices

      The Law of the Yukon

      The Parson's Son

      The Call of the Wild

      The Lone Trail

      The Pines

      The Lure of Little Voices

      The Song of the Wage-Slave

      Grin

      The Shooting of Dan McGrew

      The Cremation of Sam McGee

      My Madonna

      Unforgotten

      The Reckoning

      Quatrains

      The Men That Don't Fit In

      Music in the Bush

      The Rhyme of the Remittance Man

      The Low-Down White

      The Little Old Log Cabin

      The Younger Son

      The March of the Dead

      Fighting Mac

      The Woman and the Angel

      The Rhyme of the Restless Ones

      New Year's Eve

      Comfort

      The Harpy

      Premonition

      The Tramps

      L'Envoi

      The Land God Forgot

           The lonely sunsets flare forlorn

            Down valleys dreadly desolate;

           The lordly mountains soar in scorn

            As still as death, as stern as fate.

      The lonely sunsets flame and die;

                 The giant valleys gulp the night;

                The monster mountains scrape the sky,

                 Where eager stars are diamond-bright.

           So gaunt against the gibbous moon,

            Piercing the silence velvet-piled,

           A lone wolf howls his ancient rune —

            The fell arch-spirit of the Wild.

      O outcast land!  O leper land!

                 Let the lone wolf-cry all express

                The hate insensate of thy hand,

                 Thy heart's abysmal loneliness.

      Contents with First Lines:

         The Land God Forgot

          The lonely sunsets flare forlorn,

         The Spell of the Yukon

          I wanted the gold, and I sought it,

         The Heart of the Sourdough

          There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon,

         The Three Voices

          The waves have a story to tell me,

         The Law of the Yukon

          This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain,

         The Parson's Son

          This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone,

         The Call of the Wild

          Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on,

         The Lone Trail

          Ye who know the Lone Trail fain would follow it,

         The Pines

          We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines,

         The Lure of Little Voices

          There's a cry from out the loneliness — oh, listen, Honey, listen!

         The Song of the Wage-Slave

          When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay,

         Grin

          If you're up against a bruiser and you're getting knocked about,

         The Shooting of Dan McGrew

          A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon,

         The Cremation of Sam McGee

          There are strange things done in the midnight sun,

         My Madonna

          I haled me a woman from the street,

         Unforgotten

          I know a garden where the lilies gleam,

         The Reckoning

          It's fine to have a blow-out in a fancy restaurant,

         Quatrains

          One said:  Thy life is thine to make or mar,

         The Men That Don't Fit In

          There's a race of men that don't fit in,

         Music in the Bush

          O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon,

         The Rhyme of the Remittance Man

          There's a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the shadow of my cabin,

         The Low-Down White

          This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down,

         The Little Old Log Cabin

          When a man gets on his uppers in a hard-pan sort of town,

         The Younger Son

          If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land,

         The March of the Dead

          The cruel war was over — oh, the triumph was so sweet,

         Fighting Mac

          A pistol shot rings round and round the world,

         The Woman and the Angel

          An angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street,

         The Rhyme of the Restless Ones

          We couldn't sit and study for the law,

         New Year's Eve

          It's cruel cold on the water-front, silent and dark and drear,

         Comfort

          Say!  You've struck a heap of trouble,

         The Harpy

          There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she,

         Premonition

          'Twas a year ago,

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