FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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The Best of Robert Service
FOLK COLL 11 S-77
30
Robert Service
The Woman and the Angel
An angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street; His halo was tilted sideways, and his harp lay mute at his feet;
angel, temptation, kiss, devil
The Best of Robert Service
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The Harpy
Ther was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years all told were but a score and three; And she knew by heart, from finish to start, the Book of Iniquity.
love, distance, bitter
The Best of Robert Service
FOLK COLL 11 S-77
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Robert Service
Premonition
'Twas a year ago and the moon was bright (Oh, I remember so well, so well);
vision, death, love
The Best of Robert Service
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The Tramps
Can you recall, dear comrade, when we tramped God's land together, And we sang the old, old Earth-song, for our youth was very sweet;
travel, road, wanderlust
The Best of Robert Service
FOLK COLL 11 S-77
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Robert Service
Men of the High North
Men of the High North, the wild sky is blazing, Islands of opal float on silver seas; Swift splendors kindle, barbaric, amazing; Pale ports of amber, golden argosies.
cold, winter, men, yukon
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin
There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long Night came the man-who-had-no-name; Bearing his prize of a black fox pelt, out of the Wild he came.
fox, skin, trap, trick
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death he die -
gravedigger, gruesome, corpse, saw
The Best of Robert Service
FOLK COLL 11 S-77
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Robert Service
The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my pipe in the camp-fire light, and the Glories swept the sky; As the Northlights gleamed and curved and streamed, and the bottle of "hooch" was dry.
fear, track, one-eye
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
My Friends
The man above was a murderer, the man below was a thief, And I lay there in the bunk between, ailing beyond belief, A weary armful of skin and bone, wasted with pain and grief.
survival, murder, thief, care
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
The Prospector
I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight, A-purpose to revisit the old claim. I kept thinking mighty sadly of the funny ways of Fate, And the lads who once were with me in the game.
miner, gold, struggle
The Best of Robert Service
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60
Robert Service
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone; I'm beloved by the Legion of the Lost; I haven't got a "vox humana" tone, And a dime or two will satisfy my cost.
mouth-organ, song, music
The Best of Robert Service
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63
Robert Service
Clancy of the Mounted Police
In the Crimson Manual it's written plain and clear That who would wear the scarlet coat shall say good-bye to fear;
bravery, duty, mount, experience
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
The Land of Beyond
Have ever you heard of the Land of Beyond, That dreams at the gates of the day? Alluring it lies at the skirts of the skies, And ever so far away;
exploration, goal
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
Athabaska Dick
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of the "Hudson's Bay," as their fathers did before,
whiskey, risk, save, drowning
The Best of Robert Service
FOLK COLL 11 S-77
74
Robert Service
The Rover
Oh, how good it is to be Foot-loose and heart-free! Just my dog and pipe and I, underneath the vast sky; Trail to try and goal to win, white road and cool inn;
gipsy, travel, home, wander
The Best of Robert Service
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76
Robert Service
Just Think!
Just think! some night the stars will gleam Upon a cold, grey stone, And trace a name with silver beam, And lo! 'twill be your own.
time, goals, hope, work
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
The Mountain and the Lake
I know a mountain thrilling to the stars, Peerless and pure, and pinnacled with snow;
admire, pride, love
The Best of Robert Service
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The Quitter
When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And your sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle To cock your revolver and . . . die.
persevere, survival, hard
The Best of Robert Service
FOLK COLL 11 S-77
79
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While the Bannock Bakes
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile whit me; I've got to watch the bannock bake - how restful is the air! You'd little think that we were somewhere north of Sixty-three, Though where I don't exactly know, and don't precisely care.
patience, story, life
The Best of Robert Service
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The Lost Master
"And when I come to die," he said, "Ye shall not lay me out in state, Nor leave your laurels at my head, Nor cause your men of speech orate;
game, god, endure
The Best of Robert Service
FOLK COLL 11 S-77
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Robert Service
The Wanderlust
The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chair of ease, Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
wanderlust, travel, sights, experience
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
The Squaw Man
The cow-moose come to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee stars the vidid sward with russet, red and gold, And in the velvet gloom the fire's a-gleam.
property, alone, woman
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
A Song of Success
Ho! we were strong, we were swift, we were brave. Youth was a challenge, and Life was a fight.
victory, success, life
The Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
The Logger
In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight, I am sitting by the camp-fires's fading, cheer
logging, pay, memory
The Best of Robert Service
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Heart o' the North
And when I come to the dim trail-end, I who have been Life's rover, This is all I would like to ask, my friend, Over and over and over:
rove, north, star, travel