I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

Service is best known for his poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" from his first book Songs of a Sourdough (1907; also publiRobert W. Serviced as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses). "These humorous tales in verse were considered doggerel by the literary set yet remain extremely popular to this day. ".