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Subject: YUKON TERRITORY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HITCHING A RIDE WITH GOLD MINERS IN THE YUKON, by ALISON APOTHEKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In dark fog this cariboo highway
Last Line: Of something, %I riffle like thin water over rock
Subject(s): Gold Mines And Miners; Hitchhikers; Yukon Territory


IN THE YUKON, by RALPH GUSTAFSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In europe, you can't move without going down into history
Last Line: The dredge of that gravity, being without experience
Subject(s): Yukon Territory


OVER THE CHILKOOT TRAIL, by LISA D. CHAVEZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: I still recall the details of that day
Subject(s): Gold; Yukon Territory


THE CREMATION OF SAM MCGEE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are strange things done in the midnight sun
Last Line: I cremated sam mcgee.
Subject(s): Cold; Yukon Territory


THE HEART OF THE SOURDOUGH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There, where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon
Last Line: Even as lean wolf-dog goes down will I go down and die.
Subject(s): Gold; Yukon Territory


THE LAND GOD FORGOT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
Last Line: Thy heart's abysmal loneliness.
Subject(s): Yukon Territory


THE LAW OF THE YUKON, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the law of the yukon
Last Line: This is the will of the yukon, -- lo, how she makes it plain!
Subject(s): Yukon Territory


THE LOW-DOWN WHITE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the pay-day up at the mines
Last Line: Swift staggering through the snow.
Subject(s): Gold; Yukon Territory


THE PROSPECTOR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I strolled up old bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight
Last Line: You will but I've sought the last recorder, and he's -- god.
Subject(s): Gold; Yukon Territory


THE SHOOTING OF DAN MCGREW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bunch of the boys were whooping it up
Last Line: Was the lady that's known as lou.
Subject(s): Murder; Yukon Territory


THE SPELL OF THE YUKON, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted the gold and I sought it
Last Line: It's the stillness that fills me with peace.
Variant Title(s): The Land God Forgot
Subject(s): Gold; Religion; Yukon Territory; Theology


THE TRAMPS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can you recall, dear comrade, when we tramped god's land together
Last Line: The tragic road to anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Yukon Territory; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE YUKON'S SONG OF THE GOLD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo! We are the waters that come from afar
Last Line: The cañons of unsought gold.
Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold; Hunting; Treasures; Yukon Territory; Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Hunters