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Although Robert Service is known to many
for The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The
Cremation of Sam McGee, my favorite remains The Spell of the Yukon, most likely written
in the summer of 1905 while working in Whitehorse, Yukon. The
Robert Service web site is worth more than a short visit. The
twelve lines I quote from Spell of the Yukon are:
"...There's a land where the
mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There's a land–oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back–and I will.
...
It's the great, big, broad land
'way up yonder,
It's the forests where silence has lease;
It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It's the stillness that fills me with peace.
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