Robert Service

There's the wretched rent to pay,It is later than you think!

— Robert Service

It's coming soon and soon, mother, it's nearer every day,Then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madness -- War.

— Robert Service

Mud is mankind in the moulding,Heaven's mystery unfolding

— Robert Service

This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core

— Robert Service

Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway;From my ruthless throne I have ruled alone for a million years and a day

— Robert Service

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;This is the Will of the Yukon, -- Lo, how she makes it plain!

— Robert Service

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that’s known as Lou.

— Robert Service

Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear,Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

— Robert Service

But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I'll bet my poke they're true,That one of you is a hound of hell . . . and that one is Dan McGrew.

— Robert Service

There are strange things done in the midnight sunI cremated Sam McGee.

— Robert Service

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

— Robert Service

And the heavens scowled, and the huskies howled, and the wind began to blow.And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.

— Robert Service