| Oft' in the breeze I seem to hear
The thudding stamp of hoofbeats clear The Shaggy Legions deafening din, Resounding mildly in the wind. I turn my retrospective eye A-down the years, and there descry A spreading continent's greatest plain With mighty herds that on it reign. Urged by the season's bi-annual change Those scattering herds upon the range Group into one; and venture forth, As to the season, south or north. Within my mind they seem a most Monstrous, formidable, innumerable host Living billows which constantly roll Across plain, valley, hill, and knoll. This freedom-loving, roaming breed Fell-sacrificed to white man's greed Yet oft' in the wind I seem to hear Their haunting hoofbeats passing near. |
Stanzas For Kansas
Leonard Allen Prowant
(Wichita, Kansas: __. 1937)
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