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This poem is often wrongly thought to be by Robert W Service. It is published here to the memory of Hugh Antoine D'Arcy, it's rightful father.
An Evening with the Bard of the Yukon, July 18 th 2003 at 20.30pm in the Town-Hall of Lancieux, Brittany.
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I am looking for the poem, "The Hermit of Shark Tooth Shoal." can you help me?
Requested and Answered by Visitor on 14-Aug-2007 13:03 (4173 reads)
You could be referring to the poem, The Ballad of Yukon Jake by Edward E. Paramore, Jr. It first appeared in Vanity Fair in 1921. It has the lines:
And strong men rust, from the gold and the lust That sears the Northland soul, But the wickedest born, from the pole to the Horn Is the Hermit of Shark Tooth Shoal. Beneath the title of this poem Paramore adds the line Begging Robert W. Service's Pardon
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