Robert W. Service (1874-1958) was a Canadian poet best known for
his poems about the Canadian North. Service came to Canada when he
was 21 hoping to become a cowboy. Instead he ended up working in a
bank in the Yukon Territory. "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The
Cremation of Sam McGee" made him famous. During World War 1 he was
an ambulance driver and war correspondent. Poems in this collection
include 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, 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, and L'Envoi.
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