Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
by Robert W. Service [British-born Canadian Poet -- 1874-1958.]
[Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces.
Stanzas that were italicized AND indented are indented 10 spaces.
Italicized words and phrases are capitalized.
Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre,
and the continuation is indented two spaces.]
[This etext is transcribed from the 1912 edition, 1917 printing.
Some very minor changes have been made in spelling and punctuation
after consulting another edition.]
I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,
As seas of ink I spatter.
Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins - The other kind matter.
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
by Robert W. Service
Author of "The Spell of the Yukon", "Ballads of a Cheechako", etc.
Contents
Prelude
A Rolling Stone
The Soldier of Fortune
The Gramaphone at Fond-Du-Lac
The Land of Beyond
Sunshine
The Idealist
Athabaska Dick
Cheer
The Return
The Junior God
The Nostomaniac
Ambition
To Sunnydale
The Blind and the Dead
The Atavist
The Sceptic
The Rover
Barb-Wire Bill
"?"
Just Think!
The Lunger
The Mountain and the Lake
The Headliner and the Breadliner
Death in the Arctic
Dreams Are Best
The Quitter
The Cow-Juice Cure
While the Bannock Bakes
The Lost Master
Little Moccasins
The Wanderlust
The Trapper's Christmas Eve
The World's All Right
The Baldness of Chewed-Ear
The Mother
The Dreamer
At Thirty-Five
The Squaw Man
Home and Love
Scared of it All
A Song of Success
The Song of the Camp-Fire
Her Letter
The Man Who Knew
The Logger
The Passing of the Year
The Ghosts
Good-Bye, Little Cabin
Heart o' the North
The Scribe's Prayer
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
Prelude
I sing no idle songs of dalliance days,
No dreams Elysian inspire my ...
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