Senin, 06 November 2017

Poetry | To Fight Another Day

Born in England in 1874 to a bank cashier and an heiress, Robert William Service was the first of 10 children. He spent much of his childhood in Scotland and wrote his first poem on his sixth birthday. In 1894, yearning for travel and adventure, he sailed to western Canada to become a cowboy in …

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