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And half my course is well-nigh run - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

I fumbled fortune, flouted fate - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Those who matched me in the race - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Midnight feast and famished dawn - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Ere Fate writes Finis to the tome - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Watch me grow younger every year - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Has the cut of a naked knife - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

And the stars are rapier keen - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Home to your place of power and pride - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

All alone in the splendid emptiness - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

What did your deep damnation prove? - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

With the width of a world between - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Has hidden it in the secret heart of the Wild - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Welling back from the raw, red dawn of life - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

A mad sun goading to frenzied flame - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

A sudden sense of the frozen void - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

The aching gleam and the hush of dream - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

The caribou shadow the shining plain - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

You have held the throne of the Great Unknown - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Strung your soul to silence - Robert W. Service "The Call of the Wild"

A whisper on the night-wind - Robert W. Service "The Call of the Wild"

A star agleam to guide us - Robert W. Service "The Call of the Wild"

When even the worst is said - Robert W. Service "Cheer"

Weird shadows jigged athwart the gloom - Robert W. Service "The Dreamer"

Bring their prize assassins to the bloody work - Robert W. Service "The Dreamer"

Give your gold no acid test - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"

Fortressed in your solitude - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"

Truth's a minion of the mind - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"

Fallen brains and hearts of brass - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"

Who have trusted the trail - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

Who are strong to withstand - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

Who are swift to assail - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

Vintage of desperate years - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

The lure of your trail - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

And fight under the vampire wing - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

Reaping a barren grain - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

Have dipped pen in your heart - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

Singing his glad, mad songs of earth - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

In the abyss his soul he stripped - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

Wrestled with God for the sacred fire - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

The stories we do not dare to tell - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

Locked in the silence of the heart - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

Your rafters are scribbled with adage and rhyme - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"

Dimmed with tobacco and dream - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"

If I should perish my ghost will come back - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"

A cast-iron smile of joy - Robert W. Service "Grin"

I'd lie and listen to eternity passing over - Robert W. Service "Heart o' the North"

Bare their fangs unto the moon - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

Keep their tryst with the tranquil snows - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

Where the silences are spawned - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

And the light of hell-fire flows - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

The lure of the timeless things - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

Yet the Wild must win in the end - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

Pinned between subway and overhead train - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"

My ultimate valleys where solitude reigns - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"

Prowl in the canyons of dismal unrest - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"

The insolent towers that sprawl to the sky - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"

To be starving on rabbits up there - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"

Clutched the reins of a shooting star - Robert W. Service "The Junior God"

A little beat within the heart of Time - Robert W. Service "Just Think!"

Lonely sunsets flare forlorn - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"

Lordly mountains soar in scorn - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"

A lone wolf howls his ancient rune - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"

That dreams at the gates of the day - Robert W. Service "The Land of Beyond"

The vast pool of heaven star-spawned - Robert W. Service "The Land of Beyond"

Swift as the panther in triumph - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

Fierce as a bear in defeat - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

For a million years and a day - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

Gnawing the black crust of failure - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

Searching the pit of despair - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

In the flush of my midnight skies - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

The frogs in frenzied chorus - Robert W. Service "The Logger"

To the swamp where the orchid glows - Robert W. Service "The Lone Trail"

Stark and sullen solitudes - Robert W. Service "The Lure of Little Voices"

Can take no bitter leaving - Robert W. Service "The Lure of Little Voices"

That all the market-place was thrilled to hear - Robert W. Service "The Man Who Knew"

Let us crown him where he sits apart - Robert W. Service "The Man Who Knew"

Down the scarlet glittering street - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

All the crimson wrecks of pride - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

Clutched in hollow hand of ice - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

Sobbing on the bosom of the night - Robert W. Service "Music in the Bush"

Gleaned the triumphs of a day - Robert W. Service "Music in the Bush"

Herself a queen of song - Robert W. Service "Music in the Bush"

The witching strain of a waltz - Robert W. Service "New Year's Eve"

The bleak, barbarian pines - Robert W. Service "The Pines"

Ours to stronghold and defend - Robert W. Service "The Pines"

In the crash of the utter end - Robert W. Service "The Pines"

Ours from the bleak beginning - Robert W. Service "The Pines"

Where mocks that will-o'-wisp - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"

Held the joker and both bowers - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"

Where spheral voices blend - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"

Hang the astral chimes - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"

And sip the wealthy water - Robert W. Service "The Reckoning"

The water where the silver salmon play - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"

Gilded galley-slaves of Mammon - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"

Snow betrays the panther's track - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"

Dreamed so much - Robert Service "Rose Leaves"

Hug them to my eager heart of fire - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Camp-Fire"

Soaring up to heaven as a symbol and a sign - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Camp-Fire"

Made me the devil's tool - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Wage-Slave"

Back to the woods repentant - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Wage-Slave"

The wilds where the caribou call - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

Snows that are older than history - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

Where the weird shadows slant - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

Where the mountains are nameless - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

Luring me on as of old - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

The forests where silence has lease - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

The waves have a story to tell - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"

The wind has a lesson to teach - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"

The stars sing an anthem of glory - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"

When time was yet our vassal - Robert W. Service "The Tramps"

Has lured me to the seven lonely seas - Robert W. Service "The Wanderlust"


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