| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 49047 |
| QUOTATION: | I wanted the gold, and I sought it; I scrabbled and mucked like a slave, Was it famine or scurvyI fought it; I hurled my youth into a grave. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robert W. Service (18741958), Anglo-Canadian poet. The Spell of the Yukon (l. 14). . .
Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company. |
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