Robert Service

English-born Canadian poet and novelist 1874-1958

Canada 1976

There are strange things done in the midnight sun   By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales   That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,   But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Labarge   I cremated Sam McGee. from "The Cremation of Sam McGee"