The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

by Robert W. Service

[British-born Canadian Poet -- 1874-1958.]

[This text was also published (in Britain) under the title,
"Songs of a Sourdough".]


To C. M.



The Land God Forgot



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,