In Kansas - A poem by Hannah Rea Woodman

In Kansas.

Out in Kansas a man's a man,
And does the best he knows and can;
He doesn't brag on his ancestry
To make his folks out better'n they be;
He says his say, then he ups and goes,
And out on the plain the free wind blows.

He doesn't bark up your family tree
Nor sit back on your ancestry;
What are .you, and what can you dog
And his keen eyes bore you clean, clean through;
Personal power, that's all that goes,
And out on the plain the free wind blows.

Envoy.

In the East and the South
They blow with their mouth;.
In Kansas we let the winds blow.

^__Hannah Rea Woodman.

Tumbleweed
Poems by Hannah Rea Woodman
(Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: A. V. Haight & Company. 1909)
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