Front matter
Reading edition
"Songs from Overseas"
SONGS OF A SOURDOUGH. By Robert W. Service.
BALLADS OF A CHEECHAKO. By Robert W. Service.
LYRA NIGERIÆ. By "Adamu" (E. C. Adams).
SOUTH AFRICA, AND OTHER POEMS. By A. Vine Hall.
SONGS OUT OF EXILE (RHODESIAN RHYMES). By Cullen Gouldsbury.
COWBOY SONGS. By John A. Lomax.
RHYMES OF A ROLLING STONE. By Robert W. Service.
THE HELL-GATE OF SOISSONS, AND OTHER POEMS. By Herbert Kaufman.
THE WAITING WOMAN. By Herbert Kaufman.
FROM THE OUTPOSTS. By Cullen Gouldsbury.
RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN. By Robert W. Service.
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, LTD.
Songs of a Sourdough
By Robert W. Service
London T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. Adelphi Terrace
First Fifteen Impressions published in Canada
Sixteenth Impression,1907
(First English Edition)
Seventeenth Impression,1908
Eighteenth Impression,1908
Nineteenth Impression,1909
Twentieth Impression,1909
Twenty-first Impression,1909
Twenty-second Impression,1910
Twenty-third Impression,1910
Twenty-fourth Impression,1911
Twenty-fifth Impression,1912
Twenty-sixth Impression,1913
Twenty-seventh Impression,1913
Twenty-eighth Impression,1914
Twenty-ninth Impression,1915
Thirtieth Impression,1915
Thirty-first Impression,1916
Thirty-second Impression,1916
Thirty-third Impression,1916
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To
C. M.
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lordly mountains soar in scorn, As still as death, as stern as fate. The lonely sunsets flame and die; The giant valleys gulp the night; The monster mountains scrape the sky, Where eager stars are diamond-bright. So gaunt against the gibbous moon, Piercing the silence velvet-piled, A lone wolf howls his ancient rune, The fell arch-spirit of the Wild. O outcast land! O leper land! Let the lone wolf-cry all express— The hate insensate of thy hand, Thy heart's abysmal loneliness.