Robert+William+Service

Facts: Made By: Madison, Sabrina, Adam, Justin

** · Born in Preston, Lancashire, England on January 16, 1874 **
 · H ad nine siblings   · Today there is a brass plaque outside a senior citizens home on Kilwinning Main Street where his house once stood.  · His best poems are "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Spell of the Yukon", and "The Cremation of Sam McGee".  · He went to school at Hillhead High School in Glasgow, Scotland.  · Dreamed of becoming a cowboy   · He wrote a lot of poems about the war, many appearing in a book, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, in 1916.  · In 1914 on he lived in Europe, then returned to Canada during WWII, to live in Vancouver     · He was a newspaper writer for the Toronto Star newspaper in 1912

· served as an ambulance driver during World War I
 * He wasd raised by his aunts in a small town callled Ayrshire
 * Hey did you site you source for the picture? I sure hope so lol.
 * He has some realy good books like "The Sooting of Dan McGrew","The Creamation of Sam McGee

Poem:

**The Land God Forgot**

**The lonely sunsets flare forlorn** **Down valleys dreadly desolate;** **The lordly mountains soar in scorn** **As still as death, as stern as fate.**

**The lonely sunsets flame and die;** **The giant valleys gulp the night;** **The monster mountains scrape the sky,** **Where eager stars are diamond-bright.**

**So gaunt against the gibbous moon,** **Piercing the silence velvet-piled,** **A lone wolf howls his ancient rune --** **The fell arch-spirit of the Wild.**

**O outcast land! O leper land!** **Let the lone wolf-cry all express** **The hate insensate of thy hand,** **Thy heart's abysmal loneliness.** Pictures:

 Plaque on Kilwinning Main Street where his house once stood

= Burial Place



HIS IS THE PHOTO STORY WHERE DOING FOR THE POEM


 * Work Cited**

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"Robert W. Service.jpg." //Wikipedia//. Web. 20 Jan. 2011. [].

"File:Robert Service's Memorial, Kilwinning.JPG." //Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia//. Web. 20 Jan. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Service's_memorial,_Kilwinning.JPG>.