We never speak of it Book

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 bear in defeat,
Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat.
-- From "The Law of the Yukon"

Robert Service was born in England, but lived in Canada for much of his life. His poems paint a colorful picture of life in the Yukon and in mining camps and small gritty frontier towns. This book is a collection of some of his poems published between 1907 and 1916 and include poems like:

The Heart of the Sourdough
The Law of the Yukon
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Men That Don't Fit In
The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
The Ballad of Hard-Luck Henry
Clancy of the Mounted Police
Barb-Wire Bill
The Squaw Man

These are great poems and ballads about tough guys out in the Yukon, mining for gold or just living out in the wilderness. Every poem is epic, whether it's about the rugged beauty of the rugged or about a guy who took out a contract to bury a man after he died, regardless of where he was.