Robert William Service - The best of Robert Service
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A deluxe edition of the works of Service, with stunning period photographs of the Yukon territory he immortalized through his incomparable verses. Photos are from the famed Kinsey collection, taken in the 1890s during the height of the Klondike gold rush.
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Copyright 1983, 1990 by Running Press. Printed in China. All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions.
This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or bereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher.
9 8 7 6 5 Digit on the right indicates the number of this printing.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Number 8943594 ISBN 0897418134 (Cloth)
Cover design by Toby Schmidt Interior design by Stephanie Longo
Cover and interior photographs: Kinsey and Kinsey photographs by Clarke & Clarence Kinsey, Grand Forks, Yukon Territory, courtesy of Laing Communications Inc., Bellevue, Washington, from the collection of Ronald C. Kinsey, Jr.... Copyright 1990, Ronald C. Kinsey, Jr. and Laing Communications Inc.
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Table of Contents
Preface
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L'Envoi [1907] You who have lived in the land...
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To the Man of the High North My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming...
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The Men That Don't Fit In There's a race of men that don't fit in...
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The Rhyme of the Restless Ones We couldn't sit and study for the law...
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The Younger Son If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land...
22
The Three Voices The waves have a story to tell me...
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The Call of the Wild Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on ..?
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The Song of the Mouth-Organ I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone...
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The Trail of 'Ninety-Eight Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools...
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The Land God Forgot The lonely sunsets flare forlorn...
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The Ballad of the Northern Lights One of the Down and Outthat's me. Stare at me well, aye, stare!
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Comfort Say! You've struck a heap of trouble...
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The Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim
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The Low-Down White This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down...
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The Man from Eldorado He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town...
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The Reckoning It's fine to have a blow-out in a fancy restaurant...
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The Shooting of Dan McGrew A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon...
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The Harpy There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she...
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The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame
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The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye...
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The Pines We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines...
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The Wood-Cutter The sky is like an envelope...
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The Telegraph Operator I will not wash my face...
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The Ballad of Pious Pete I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did...
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