Fiche 78, exercice 3 (page 165)

1. The spell of the Yukon
   I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
   I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
   Was it famine or scurvy - I fought it;
   I hurled my youth into a grave.
   I wanted the gold, and I got it -
   Came out with a fortune last fall, -
   Yet somehow life's not what I thought it,
   And somehow the gold isn't all.
   
   Robert Service, The Spell of the Yukon, 1907