"The waves have a story to tell me,

As I lie on the lonely beach;

Chanting aloft in the pine-tops,

The wind has a lesson to teach;

But the stars sing an anthem of glory I cannot put into speech."

The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

Robert W. Service died #OTD in 1958. He was a popular verse writer called “the Canadian Kipling” for rollicking ballads of the “frozen North,” notably “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.”

Books by Robert W. Service at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/117

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