Tag: Robert Service
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Here’s to Oddity
The Men that Don’t Fit in “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest; Theirs is the…
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Some Day
Spell of the Yukon “There’s a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And Deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land – oh, it beckons…
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Wanderlust Lost
Wanderlust Lost Tennyson’s Ulysses was written when Tennyson was a very young man, but it deals with Ulysses in his old age, home from twenty years of wandering and fighting the gods themselves, and it resonates with men of the age Ulysses is in the poem. How is this possible? Tennyson grasped on the…
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Wanderlust Lost
I’m researching for a paper, gathering poetry related to the aging Ulysses in Tennyson’s poem of that name, and I thought I’d share my snips with you all… Rudyard Kipling, The Mary Gloster “Not the least of our merchant-princes.” Dickie, that’s me, your dad! I didn’t begin with askings. I took my job and I…