I love the peaks with their snow-bound caps; the stately mountains grand;
The pungent smell of the bending pines that tower on either hand;
The streams that leap through canyons deep and the wind’s low melody–
I heed their call, for I love them all–’tis the West, the West for me!
I love the stretches of desert gray; the brown buttes grim and high;
I love the scent of the sagebrush flats; the blue of the vaulted sky;
The charm and spell of each new draw and swell, and the shifting sand-dunes free;
They grip and hold as their charms unfold–aye, the West, the West for me!
I love the trail through the lonely hills to the door of the old log shack,
And an insist strong is luring on, a it calls and beckons back.
I love the croon of the low, sweet tune that sighs through the scrub-oak tree,
And the bubbling note from the wild-bird’s throat–ah, the West, the West for me!
I love the herds on the open range; the riders who guard them well,
Who ride like fiends in the night stampede through the ocean of chaparral.
I love to dream in the campfire’s gleam of the days as they used to be,
And the stalwart men who were heroes then–so the West, the West for me!
Oh, the boundless West, and the wild, free life that is spent in the open air,
With the handiwork of the God of All in the plains and the mountains there!
I love the sweep of the streams that creep from the hills to the throbbing sea,
And I hear their call as the shadows fall–oh, the West, the West for me!
(Earl Alonzo Brininstool)
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