The Spell of the Yukon

The Spell of the Yukon

By Robert W. Service

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 into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it -
came out with a fortune last fall,-
Yet somehow life's not what I thought it,
And somehow the gold isn't all.

No! there's the land. (Have you seen it?)
It's the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say God was tired when He made it;
Some say it's a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there's some as would trade it
For no land on earth - and I'm one.

You come to get rich (damn good reason);
You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like hell for a season.
And then you are the worse than the worse.
It grips you like some kinds of sinning;
It twists you from foe to a friend;
It seems it's been since the beginning;
It seems it will be to the end.

I've stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow
That's plumb-full of hush to the brim;
I've watched the big, husky sun wallow
In crimson and gold, and grow dim,
Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming,
And the stars tumbled out, neck and crop;
And I've thought that I surly was creaming,
With the peace o' the world piled on top.

The summer - no sweeter was ever;
The sunshiny woods all athrill;
The grayling aleap in the river,
The bighorn asleep on the hill.
The strong life that never knows harness;
The wilds where caribou call;
The freshness, the freedom, the farness-
O God! how I'm stuck on it all.

The winter! the brightness that blinds you,
The white land locked tight as a drum,
The cold fear that follows amd finds you,
The silencr that bludgeons you dumb.
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There's a land- oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back- and I will.

They're making my money deminish;
I'm sick of the taste of champagne.
Thank God! when i'm skinned to a finish
I'll pike to the Yukon again.
I'll fight- and you bet it's no sham-fight;
It's hell!- but I've been there before;
And it's better than this by a damnsight-
So me for the Yukon once more.

There's gold and it's haunting and haunting;
It's luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting
So much as just finding the gold.

It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,
It's the forest where silence has lease;
It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It's the stillness that fills me with peace.

Hope you all enjoy this. I think it speaks to all miners and everyone who enjoys the wonders that God gives us that we call nature.

B H Prospector

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I'm brand spamming new to prospecting and want to try my hand at panning. My friends and I decided for my birthday to go down to NC, but can't decide which place we should go. All three should about the same and all sound fun! Which would you go to and why? We figure we will try to check all three out but cannot decide which one to stay (camp) it for a couple days. Any suggestions? Any ideas of other places i should check out? My sister lives in SC (Newberry) so I'm down that way a few times a summer. I want to get some practice in, because I'm going out west, at the end of the summer and my friends out there are planning on taking me :-)

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I would try thermal city, they seem to be the best in nc..

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