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1. These are the first lines of "The Spell of the Yukon".
"I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy - I fought it;
I hurled my youth __________."
2. These are the first lines of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew".
"A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;
The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a _____________;
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou."
3. These are the first lines of "The Law of the Yukon".
"This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:
'Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane --
Strong for the red rage of battle; sane for I harry them sore;
Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core;
Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce as the ________,
Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat....'"
4. These are the first lines of "The Cremation of Sam McGee".
"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 ________ have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee."
5. These are the first lines of "The Men That Don't Fit In".
"There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of _________,
And they roam the world at will."
6. These are the first lines of "The Heart of the Sourdough".
"There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon,
There where the sullen sun-dogs glare in the snow-bright, bitter noon,
And the glacier-glutted streams sweep down at the clarion ________."
7. These are the first lines of "Remorse".
"That scathing word I used in scorn
(Though half a century ago)
Comes back to me this April morn,
Like boomerang to work me woe;
Comes back to me with bitter blame
(Though apple boughs are blossoming),
And oh! the anguish __________
Is sharper than a serpent's sting!"
8. These are the first lines of "The Pines".
"We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines;
The gray moss drapes us like sages, and closer we lock our lines,
And deeper we clutch through the gelid gloom where never a sunbeam ______."
9. These are the first lines of "Dreams are Best".
"I just think that dreams are best,
Just to sit and fancy things;
Give your gold no acid test,
Try not how your silver _______;
Fancy women pure and good,
Fancy men upright and true:
Fortressed in your solitude,
Let Life be a dream to you."
10. These are the first lines of "Comfort".
"Say! You've struck a heap of trouble -
Bust in business, lost your wife;
No one cares a cent about you,
You don't care a cent for life;
Hard luck has of hope bereft you,
Health is failing, wish you'd die -
Why, you've still the sunshine left you
And the big, _____."
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