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George J. Dance wrote:
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> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> Just Think!, by Robert Service

> Just think! some night the stars will gleam
     Upon a cold, grey stone,
> And trace a name with silver beam,
>     And lo! ’twill be your own.

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https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2021/07/just-think-robert-service.html


Good choice, I was just thinking about Robert W. Service in comparison with Rudyard Kipling. As I wrote earlier:

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/2VmrHu2gj5Y/m/8ZP8VRnmCQAJ

Interesting, I just came across an old copy of "Barrack-Room Ballads", sort of Robert W. Service type poems, written by Kipling.

The characters have that feel, "Danny Deever", "Mandalay" and the classic "Gunga Din"...

http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Barrack-Room_Ballads

"The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work..."


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