Thursday, January 19, 2012

Listen up! Especially Crawdad, Lumpy, 3Card, and anyone else who hates this frigid arctic blast we are enduring!

"I have clinched and closed with the Naked North, I have learned to defy and defend / Shoulder to shoulder we must fight it out / But The North must win in the end!" Robert Service

My fourth grade teacher Mrs. Paul recited this one to us when I was nine years out of the womb. This is a poem by the great Robert Service. He was THE BARD of the Yukon and Alaska. He was to the frozen North what Rudyard Kipling was to the British Empire, and what Henry Lawson was to Australia! Even if you don't think you like poetry, you will this one: AND it's recited by Johnny Cash. Enjoy! CLICK HERE

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