FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Wind in the Grass

The wind sweeps over the bunch grass flat.

fragrance, smell, nature, sound

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Red River Valley

Oh, the Red River Valley, how level it lays.

fragrance, nature, rocks, silence, peacefulness, fall, summer, winter, seasons, spring, beauty

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

In the Badlands

Dawn, how the silver shadows slant through the morning air.

nature, badlands, land

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Coyote

You will hear his voice complaining from the dim dew-haunted hill.

coyote, wildlife, howl, west

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Flight

All day the flocks have passed above my field.

birds, spring

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Stars

I am alone beneath the stars tonight.

stars, night, alone, Milky Way, falling stars, God, belief

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Christmas Trail

The snow gleams brightly neath a frozen sun.

family, home, friendship, Christmas

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Hoar-Frost

The world is filled with beauty: every tree.

frost, cold, beauty, nature

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Lure of the Badlands

There's a land that no artist has painted.

vast land, God, silence, outlaws, desolation, attraction

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Blizzard

A giant mad with rage.

wind, cold, snow, safety, warmth, coziness

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

At Elkhorn Ranch

At Elkhorn Ranch he grosbeak sings.

canyons, buttes, Roosevelt

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Signs of Spring

The robins know it.

spring fever, flowers, birds

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

If I Where There

If I where there, Old Pal.

memories, Western sky, campfire, prairies, nature

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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London

What though the last lone building lay in ash.

fire, World War II, bombing, destruction, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Keats, Magna Carta, England, spirit

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Ever and Always

Ever and always I shall love the vast.

past, sunset, contentedness

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Blow, Winds, Blow

Blow, winds, blow across the plains.

heat, freshness, rain, wishes, constructive dreams, strength, self-control

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Rain

When earth is parched and grass is seared by drouth.

dust clouds, heat, drought, water

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Song Of The Buttes

I am a song for the ages.

stars, sunset, Oligocene river, Nile, age, timelessness

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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The Magpie

Sprite of the air, true symbol of the West.

symbol, buttes, rivers, West, birds

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Countless

What though we count the miles to distant stars.

atoms, light years, measurement, timelessness, beauty

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

A Westerner's Prayer

Dear Lord, I pray, make me as free as is the summer breeze.

freedom, democratic, snobbishness, stubbornness, truth, humble

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Law of Dakota

There's a law -- how it reigns in Dakota!

immigrant, settler, spell, West, law of the land, Westland, addiction, hooked, longing, home

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Retirement

He has put in the crossing frog.

road master

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Shooting of Riley Luffsey

O'Donald and Luffsey (first names Frank and Riley).

John Reuter, Wannigan, Dutch, Marquis de Mores, France, rumors, dispute, Mandan, gusty lawyers, lusty witnesses, liquor, Medora

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Lost Song

Oh, I left the town with its bloody fights.

wine, women, liquor, sin, beauty