Six Feet Of Sod



This is the end of all my ways,
      My wanderings on earth,
My gloomy and my golden days,
      My madness and my mirth.
I've bought ten thousand blades of grass
      To bed me down below,
And here I wait the days to pass
            Until I go.
            
Until I bid good bye to friend,
      To feast and fast goodbye,
And in a stint of soil the end
      I seek of sun and sky.
My farings far on land and sea,
      My trails of global girth
Sum up to this,--to cover me
            Six feet of earth.

My home of homes I hold in fee
      For centuries to pass,
When snug my skeleton will be
      And grin up through the grass;
When my grey ghost will bend above,
      And grieve to gracious God
This endless end of life and love,--
            Six feet of sod.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABABCDCD EFEFGBGB GCGCHIHI
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 756
Words 145
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8

Robert William Service

Robert William Service was a poet and writer sometimes referred to as the Bard of the Yukon He is best-known for his writings on the Canadian North including the poems The Shooting of Dan McGrew The Law of the Yukon and The Cremation of Sam McGee His writing was so expressive that his readers took him for a hard-bitten old Klondike prospector not the later-arriving bank clerk he actually was Robert William Service was born 16 January 1874 in Preston England but also lived in Scotland before emigrating to Canada in 1894 Service went to the Yukon Territory in 1904 as a bank clerk and became famous for his poems about this region which are mostly in his first two books of poetry He wrote quite a bit of prose as well and worked as a reporter for some time but those writings are not nearly as well known as his poems He travelled around the world quite a bit and narrowly escaped from France at the beginning of the Second World War during which time he lived in Hollywood California He died 11 September 1958 in France Incidentally he played himself in a movie called The Spoilers starring John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich more…

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