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    Who wrote the epic 'The Cremation of Tom Goad'?

    Question #19342. Asked by Vick. (May 23 02 11:24 PM)


    Son of The Household Cavalry

    The closest I can find to the title in the question is Bruce Springsteen's 'The Ghost of Tom Goad'

    May 24 02, 6:20 AM
    RickF

    The Canadian poet Robert Service wrote a fairly epic poem called 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' - any help?

    May 24 02, 8:39 AM
    Vick

    That's it!!!

    Thank you RickF

    May 25 02, 12:52 AM
    leucretia1

    "The Cremation of Sam McGee" is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's poems. It was published in 1907 in The Songs of a Sourdough (The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses). It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death in the Yukon Territory of Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.

    "...The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
    But the queerest they ever did see
    Was the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
    I cremated Sam McGee."


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cremation_of_Sam_McGee

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5672398

    Jan 17 08, 3:21 PM


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