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_Songs of a Sourdough_




_"Songs from Overseas"_


SONGS OF A SOURDOUGH. By ROBERT W. SERVICE.

BALLADS OF A CHEECHAKO. By ROBERT W. SERVICE.

LYRA NIGERIAE. By "ADAMU" (E. C. ADAMS).

SOUTH AFRICA, AND OTHER POEMS. By A. VINE HALL.

SONGS OUT OF EXILE (RHODESIAN RHYMES). By CULLEN GOULDSBURY.

COWBOY SONGS. By JOHN A. LOMAX.

RHYMES OF A ROLLING STONE. By ROBERT W. SERVICE.

THE HELL-GATE OF SOISSONS, AND OTHER POEMS. By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

THE WAITING WOMAN. By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

FROM THE OUTPOSTS. By CULLEN GOULDSBURY.

RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN. By ROBERT W. SERVICE.


LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, LTD.




 _Songs of a Sourdough_


          _By
   Robert W. Service_


        _London
  T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.
    Adelphi Terrace_




 _First Fifteen Impressions published in Canada
        Sixteenth Impression,      1907
            (First English Edition)
        Seventeenth Impression,    1908
        Eighteenth Impression,     1908
        Nineteenth Impression,     1909
        Twentieth Impression,      1909
        Twenty-first Impression,   1909
        Twenty-second Impression,  1910
        Twenty-third Impression,   1910
        Twenty-fourth Impression,  1911
        Twenty-fifth Impression,   1912
        Twenty-sixth Impression,   1913
        Twenty-seventh Impression, 1913
        Twenty-eighth Impression,  1914
        Twenty-ninth Impression,   1915
        Thirtieth Impression,      1915
        Thirty-first Impression,   1916
        Thirty-second Impression,  1916
        Thirty-third Impression,   1916_


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To

C. M.




    _The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
      Down valleys dreadly desolate;
    The lordly mountains soar in scorn,
      As still as death, as stern as fate._

          _The lonely sunsets flame and die;
            The giant valleys gulp the night;
          The monster mountains scrape the sky,
            Where eager stars are diamond-bright._

    _So gaunt against the gibbous moon,
      Piercing the silence velvet-piled,
    A lone wolf howls his ancient rune,
      The fell arch-spirit of the Wild._

          _O outcast land! O leper land!
            Let the lone wolf-cry all express--
          The hate insensate of thy hand,
            Thy heart's abysmal loneliness._




CONTENTS


                                     PAGE
 THE LAW OF THE YUKON                  11
 THE PARSON'S SON                      17
 THE SPELL OF THE YUKON                21
 THE CALL OF THE WILD                  25
 THE LONE TRAIL                        28
 THE HEART OF THE SOURDOUGH            31
 THE THREE VOICES                      34
 THE PINES                             36
 THE HARPY                             39
 THE LURE OF LITTLE VOICES             43
 THE SONG OF THE WAGE-SLAVE