Robert William Service Poems

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Life 295 God 292 Never 262 Heart 262 I Love You 234 Love 234 Night 210 Away 194 Joy 179 Good 175

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David N Johnson: The Man From Athabasca takes on new life if you listen to Country Joe McDonald sing it in his War, War, War album. Look it up on YouTube. He did a studio version in 1971, and a live performance nearly forty years later. It grabs your heart.

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Sonnet Lii: What? Dost Thou Mean
 by Michael Drayton

What? Dost thou mean to cheat me of my heart?
To take all mine and give me none again?
Or have thine eyes such magic or that art
That what they get they ever do retain?
Play not the tyrant, but take some remorse;
Rebate thy spleen, if but for pity's sake;
Or, cruel, if thou canst not, let us 'scourse,
And, for one piece of thine, my whole heart take.
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