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".
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