Click in the field, then press CTRL+C to copy the HTML code
<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shooting Of Dan McGrew</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;<br>The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune;<br>Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,<br>And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare,<br>There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.<br>He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse,<br>Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house.<br>There was none could place the stranger's face, though we searched ourselves for a clue;<br>But we drank his health, and the last to drink was Dangerous Dan McGrew.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There's men that somehow just grip your eyes, and hold them hard like a spell;<br>And such was he, and he looked to me like a man who had lived in hell;<br>With a face most hair, and the dreary stare of a dog whose day is done,<br>As he watered the green stuff in his glass, and the drops fell one by one.<br>Then I got to figgering who he was, and wondering what he'd do,<br>And I turned my head -- and there watching him was the lady that's known as Lou.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">His eyes went rubbering round the room, and he seemed in a kind of daze,<br>Till at last that old piano fell in the way of his wandering gaze.<br>The rag-time kid was having a drink; there was no one else on the stool,<br>So the stranger stumbles across the room, and flops down there like a fool.<br>In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway;<br>Then he clutched the keys with his talon hands -- my God! but that man could play.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear,<br>And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could HEAR;<br>With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold,<br>A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;<br>While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars? --<br>Then you've a haunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And hunger not of the belly kind, that's banished with bacon and beans,<br>But the gnawing hunger of lonely men for a home and all that it means;<br>For a fireside far from the cares that are, four walls and a roof above;<br>But oh! so cramful of cosy joy, and crowned with a woman's love --<br>A woman dearer than all the world, and true as Heaven is true --<br>(God! how ghastly she looks through her rouge, -- the lady that's known as Lou.)</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then on a sudden the music changed, so soft that you scarce could hear;<br>But you felt that your life had been looted clean of all that it once held dear;<br>That someone had stolen the woman you loved; that her love was a devil's lie;<br>That your guts were gone, and the best for you was to crawl away and die.<br>'Twas the crowning cry of a heart's despair, and it thrilled you through and through --<br>"I guess I'll make it a spread misere," said Dangerous Dan McGrew.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The music almost died away . . . then it burst like a pent-up flood;<br>And it seemed to say, "Repay, repay," and my eyes were blind with blood.<br>The thought came back of an ancient wrong, and it stung like a frozen lash,<br>And the lust awoke to kill, to kill . . . then the music stopped with a crash,<br>And the stranger turned, and his eyes they burned in a most peculiar way;</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway;<br>Then his lips went in in a kind of grin, and he spoke, and his voice was calm,<br>And "Boys," says he, "you don't know me, and none of you care a damn;<br>But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I'll bet my poke they're true,<br>That one of you is a hound of hell . . . and that one is Dan McGrew."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then I ducked my head, and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the dark,<br>And a woman screamed, and the lights went up, and two men lay stiff and stark.<br>Pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew,<br>While the man from the creeks lay clutched to the breast of the lady that's known as Lou.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=508852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">These are the simple facts of the case, and I guess I ought to know.<br>They say that the stranger was crazed with "hooch", and I'm not denying it's so.<br>I'm not so wise as the lawyer guys, but strictly between us two --<br>The woman that kissed him and -- pinched his poke -- was the lady that's known as Lou.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a></strong></div>