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Born in January 16, 1874 / Died in September 11, 1958 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Robert William Service

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The Petit Vieux

... Won't I be a hoary old sinner in their eyes!Watch me, how I'll learn to chaff barmaids in a bar ...

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At Eighty Years

... Of memory!Ye proud ones of the earth ...

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Causation

... Though half the world I've wandered through ...

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My Dog's My Boss

... The death of his desire!He gazed at me with eyes of woe ...

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Our Pote

... * * * * * * * * * *Well, since them final lines I wrote, ...

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L'Escargot D'Or

... Here Wilde would talk and Synge would muse, ...

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The Boola-Boola Maid

... her he-man, Though she still dreams of a She-man, As she sings this song with glee: Chorus: ...

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L'Envoi

... Please you, lift this little book, ...

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The Release

... Our wondrous wings are arched for flying ...

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An Epicure

... And nice white mice, conserved in honey ...

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Pipe Smoker

... With cheery point of view, ...

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The Lone Trail

... And sometimes it leads to an Arctic trail, and the snows where your torn feet freeze, ...

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To Frank Dodd

... (Oh, small the blame!) ...

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Trees Against The Sky

... . . . So I gaze and I know now why ...

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Apollo Belvedere

... They have us licked, I thought, an' stood wi' mingled gloom an' cheer ...