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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 Healer

... "From blood of turtle I've distilled ...

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Flight

... The sea-gull in its flight!Let me not know the soils of woe ...

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A Hero

... Three times I beat the foul fiend back ...

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Don't Cheer

... . don't cheer.Sow to the ploughing guns ...

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Winding Wool

... The best I liked were coloured strands ...

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The Man From Eldorado

... Where he lived on tinned tomatoes, beef embalmed and sourdough bread, ...

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To The Man Of The High North

... And in strange valleys greet strange deaths alone ...

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Futility

... A score of years have gone, they're clean forgot ...

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The Little Old Log Cabin

... An' his face is peaked an' gray-like an' his heart gits down an' whines, ...

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The Tunnel

... For the poor must be makin' the rich more rich, ...

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God's Grief

... " "Lord God of Battles," cries the foe, ...

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My Cuckoo Clock

... Cuckoo! Cuckoo!Though ignorance is bliss ...

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My Ancestors

... My father's hands were warped with toil, ...

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My Coffin

... As starred the blackness of the night ...

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The Cat With Wings

... For though frustration has it stings, ...