There are strange things done in the Midnight Sun
by the men who moil for gold.
The Arctic trails have their secret tales,
That would make your blood run cold.
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows;
Why he left his home to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he'd often say, in his homely way, that he'd "sooner live in hell."
I could quote the rest but I'll spare you...I can also quote the Jabberwock in its entirety, the entire 54 lines of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" poem, and several others. They are all ones I learned over 30 years ago, in high school and they've just stuck with me.
Who *says* I'm not talented?!? :lmao: