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

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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Clell Goebel Gannon

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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Clell Goebel Gannon

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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Clell Goebel Gannon

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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Clell Goebel Gannon

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

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Upland Plover

Through long, long months of winter's reign I wait.

seasons, spring, happiness, memories, fall, winter, summer

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Ancient Need

An ancient man, moved by some ancient greed.

fire, invention, stone carvings, wheel, eternal, modern man, necessities

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Pasque Flower

True pioneer, you love the unturned sod.

landscape, love for the land, hope, zephyrs, plains, prairie, hope, winter, spring

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Clell

Clell, This spring, after my heart's winter.

hyacinths, sadness, death

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Death

Sometimes we face a thing so grand.

unspoken words, silence

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Peace

A lake at rest beneath a silent moon.

quietude, night, undisturbed

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Late October Sunset

Before me all the colors of the flowers.

beauty, lowers, solitude, autumn, summer

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Finish

When the final page is written in the hist'ry of the West.

cowboys, Indians, settling the land, Keep-Off signs, golf, resignation, roads, bill-boards, crowdedness

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

An Old House

An old house stands by the roadside.

deteriorating, swallows

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

A Sunset

The sun, a tired traveler, drops its head.

sun, colors, light, sky, silence, coyote, harmony, contentedness