This poem was based on the discovery of a corpse on the steamer Olive May by its author's roommate, and was originally published as part of the 1907 collection The Songs of a Sourdough. The author describes the title character as "always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell", while the poem begins "There are strange things done in the land of the midnight sun". FTP, identify this Robert W. Service po
This poem was based on the discovery of a corpse on the steamer Olive May by its author's roommate, and was originally published as part of the 1907 collection The Songs of a Sourdough. The author describes the title character as "always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell", while the poem begins "There are strange things done in the land of the midnight sun". FTP, identify this Robert W. Service poem about a gold prospector who freezes to death in the Yukon territory.
This poem was based on the discovery of a corpse on the steamer Olive May by its author's roommate, and was originally published as part of the 1907 collection The Songs of a Sourdough.
The Cremation of Sam McGee