Scottish Canadian poet Robert W. Service, The Poet of the Yukon, was born January 16, 1874.

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.
Cremation of Sam McGee

Robert W. Service – Cremation of Sam McGee
Issued 1976 by Canada post
Designer: David Charles Bierk

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