Poetry Service, Robert W.: Ballads of a Cheechako. V1. 7 May 2008

[The Old Man]

This was Service’s second book of verse published in 1909. All the poems concern the Yukon Gold Rush of 1896-98.


These will I sing, and if one of you linger
Over my pages in the Long, Long Night,
And on some lone line lay a calloused finger,
Saying: "It's human-true--it hits me right";
Then will I count this loving toil well spent;
Then will I dream awhile--content, content.
Last stanza, To the men of the High North.