Passing of the Year

By Robert W. Service · Running time 0:25:57 · Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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About this book

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Passing of the Year by by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 18, 2011. Robert William Service was a poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon". This poem taken from Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, published in 1912.(Summary from Wikipedia) I have no doubt at all the Devil grins As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins — The other kind don't matter.(frontispiece)

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