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The Passing of the Year
Written by Robert W. Service
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Passing of the Year by by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 18, 2011.
Robert William Service was a poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon". This poem taken from Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, published in 1912.(Summary from Wikipedia)
I have no doubt at all the Devil grins
As seas of ink I spatter.
Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins —
The other kind don't matter.(frontispiece)
Robert William Service was a poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon". This poem taken from Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, published in 1912.(Summary from Wikipedia)
I have no doubt at all the Devil grins
As seas of ink I spatter.
Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins —
The other kind don't matter.(frontispiece)
Author
Robert W. Service
Robert W. Service (1874-1958) was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, and came to Canada in 1895, eventually ending up in Yukon Territory in 1904, five years after the Klondike Gold Rush. His many books include the poetry collection The Songs of a Sourdough, the novel The Trail of '98, and the autobiography Ploughman of the Moon. Service later moved to France, where he died.
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