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THE SPELL OF THE YUKON AND OTHER VERSES
by ROBERT W SERVICE

Entered/proofed by Alan Light, alight@rock.concert.net
7407-B Waxhaw Creek Road, Waxhaw, NC  28173
Proofed by THE GAR, glwarner@samford.bitnet

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The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

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






by Robert W. Service

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



Publishers
Barse & Co.

New York, N. Y.
Newark, N.J.



Copyright, 1916 by Barse & Co.
[expired in the U.S.A.]



Printed in the United States of America



[Note on text:  Italics are marked by asterisks.
Lines longer than 70 characters have been broken according to metre,
and the continuation is indented 10 spaces.]




To C. M






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 gi . . .