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翻译: 耕者)
译丛系列: 山姆莫奇的火葬 ( ROBERT SERVICE 翻译 耕者
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The Cremation of Sam McGee by ROBERT SERVICE (1874-1958), Canada
Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958)
was a British-Canadian poet and writer who has often been
called "the Bard of the Yukon".[1][2] He is best known for his
poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of
Sam McGee", from his first book, Songs of a Sourdough (1907;
also published as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses). His
vivid descriptions of the Yukon and its people made it seem that
he was a veteran of the Klondike gold rush, instead of the latearriving bank clerk he actually was. "These humorous tales in
verse were considered doggerel by the literary set, yet remain
extremely popular to this day."
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 Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
午夜阳光下，忙碌淘金人，多有怪异事
北极小径上的神秘传说，