An Englishman born with the great gift of rhyme <br />He lived in the Yukon in his glorious prime <br />A master wordsmith of the twentieth century <br />He glorified Dan Mgrew and Sam Magee. <br /> <br />With words 'twould be fair to say he had a way <br />And in his stirring ballads he lives on today <br />The great Robert Service he knew of great fame <br />And in the Yukon his lives as a legendary name. <br /> <br />His ballads and poems to the masses are known <br />The great Robert Service was in a class of his own <br />He sang of life and death in the lands of the snow <br />And the rhymes from his pen in great torrents did flow. <br /> <br />He sang of the Yukon in the days of old <br />And of the desperate characters who moiled for gold <br />And of the barmaids and hookers of old Dawson Town <br />Where he penned his way into literary renown. <br /> <br />A poet at heart and that type are so rare <br />And few with Robert Service that one could compare <br />He penned stirring ballads of the Land of snow <br />And in death as in life his legend seem to grow.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-great-robert-service/
