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" 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... "
The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture - Page 1140
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Queen's Quarterly, Volume 16

Humanities - 1909 - 510 pages
...from coming into this country. Let the old countries take care of their own misfits and failures. " Send not your foolish and feeble ; send me your strong...in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat, Sired of a bull-dog parent, steeled in the furnace heat." The Jonathan Edwards family was in every respect the...
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The Canadian Magazine, Volume 29

J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 624 pages
...and "The Low-down White." We qu'ote from the first, which has a Kipling ring: THB LAW OF THE YUKON This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it...in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat, Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat. Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen...
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The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses

Robert William Service - Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) - 1907 - 114 pages
...world is singing to world. THE LAW OF THE YUKON This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes ii plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send me...in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat, Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat. Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen...
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The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses

Robert William Service - History - 1907 - 122 pages
...unfurled, And the wind and the wave are silent, And world is singing to world. 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 youi strong and your sane — Strong for the red rage of battle; sane, for I harry them sore ; Send...
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The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses

Robert William Service - History - 1907 - 118 pages
...fangs unto the moon, THE THREE VOICES 18 The waves have a story to tell ma, THE LAW OF THE YUKON 20 This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain, THE PARSON'S SON 26 This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone, THE CALL...
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Putnam's & the Reader, Volume 4

Literature - 1908 - 814 pages
...music-hall mechanism about them, as in the long ballad in which he lays down "The Law of the Yukon."' This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it...girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core. One by one I dismayed them, frighting them sore with my glooms; One by one I betrayed them unto my...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Critic, Volume 4

Literature - 1908 - 828 pages
...music-hall mechanism about them, as in the long ballad in which he lays down "The Law of the Yukon."' This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it...girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core. One by one I dismayed them, frighting them sore with my glooms; One by one I betrayed them unto my...
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The Assembly Herald, Volume 15

Presbyterian Church - 1909 - 1754 pages
...good-by." "Good-by, Yehoss." THE LAW OF THE YUKON |HIS is the law of the Yukon, and ever she mokes it plain : "Send not your foolish and feeble; send...in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat, Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat. Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen...
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The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance

Robert William Service - Alaska - 1910 - 548 pages
...-.-'.• » 169 . ,-;-. : " ; /, ":*•/ i **«**, -"*' *•' BOOK IV THE VORTEX ... . . . « « .. 321 THIS is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it...in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat, Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat. Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen...
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Father Lacombe: The Black-robe Voyageur

Katherine Hughes - Biography & Autobiography - 1911 - 536 pages
...1811 TO THE FAITH AND GRIT OF THE UNWRITTEN HEROES ITT THE OLD GUARD OF OBLATB* IN WESTERN CANADA 1 Send me men girt for the combat, Men who are grit to the core. . . . Send me the best of your breeding, Lend me your chosen ones; Them will I take to my bosom, Them...
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