I'm NOT into Poetry but everyone would enjoy Robert W. Service's Ballads


	I'm NOT into Poetry but everyone would enjoy Robert W. Service's Ballads

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10-27-2007 12:49 PM

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10-27-2007 1:00 PM

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A couple of my favorites:
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Service lived alone for 8 years on the Yukon in Alaska and wrote,in verse, of his observations during and post "The Yukon Gold Rush"

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