Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell." On a Christmas Day …

So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains. A pal's last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail; And we started on at the streak of dawn but God! he …

Sam McGee has left his (fictional) hometown of Plumtree, Tennessee, [a] to seek gold in the Yukon. While traveling the Dawson Trail with Cap, the narrator, Sam becomes convinced that he will die of exposure to the cold and asks Cap to cremate his body.

2011年5月13日 · Read, review and discuss the The Cremation Of Sam McGee poem by Robert William Service on Poetry.com

‘The Cremation of Sam McGee’ is one of the best-known poems of Robert W. Service. The poem presents the cremation of Sam McGee who freezes to death in the prospect of gold.

Service was inspired to write this dark and spooky narrative poem by the stories he heard from the people of the Yukon. The poem was published in his book, Songs of a Sourdough in 1907. "The Cremation of Sam McGee" has turned out to be one of Service's most famous poems.

The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service : The Poetry Foundation And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow; And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low; The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in; And I'd often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a ...

The northern lights have seen queer sights But the queerest they ever did see, Was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge I cremated Sam McGee. Now Sam McGee was from Tenessee Where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the south to roam ‟round the Pole, God only knows.

9 Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. 10 Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. 11 He was always cold, but the …

The Cremation of Sam McGee, ballad by Robert Service, published in Canada in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough (U.S. title, The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses). A popular success upon publication, this exaggerated folktale about a pair of Yukon …