The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

126 pp. "The Songs of a Sourdough is a book of poetry published in 1907 by Robert W. Service. In the United States, these poems were published under the title The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses. It contains these poems: "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"; "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"" (a paean to the life and death of Hector MacDonald); "The Woman and the Angel"; "The Rhyme of the Restless Ones"; "New Year's Eve"; "Comfort"; "The Harpy"; "Premonition"; "The Tramps"; "L'Envoi"" -- Wikipedia ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a poet and writer, sometimes referred to as 'the Bard of the Yukon'. He is best-known for his writings on the Canadian North, including the poems 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew', 'The Law of the Yukon', and 'The Cremation of Sam McGee'. His writing was so expressive that his readers took him for a hard-bitten old Klondike prospector, not the later-arriving bank clerk he actually was. In addition to his Yukon works, Service also wrote poetry set in locales as diverse as South Africa, Afghanistan, and New Zealand. His writing has a decidedly British Empire point of view, and has been criticized for its Eurocentrism and use of pejoratives. However, he was a product of his time, and was able to distil his observations into beautiful descriptive texts." -- Wikipedia