The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
WIN. BROWN, OF OREGON.

~ LUIS u1reO man mad loved her long,
:, Had loved her best and first and last;
Her very garments as she passed
3. For him had symphony and song.
" 50 when one day, with brow afrown,
IS She called him Bill, he raised his head,
l. He caught her eye, then faltering said
n ~ love you, and my name is Brown"
y She fairly waltzed with rage; she wept;
= You would have thought the house afire:
She told her sire, the portly squire,
q Then smelt her smelling salts, and slept.
9 Poor William did what could be done
He swung a pistol on each hip.
e He gathered up great ox-whip,
y And drove toward the setting sun
He crossed the great backbone of earth.
He saw the snowy mountains rolled
Like mighty pillows, saw the gold
OF awful sunsets, saw the birth
| OF sudden dawn upon the plain
And every eve would William Brown
, Eat pork and beana, and then lie down
Aud dream sweet dreams of Mary Jane.
The teter-board of life goes up,
The teter-board ct life goes down,
The sweetest face must learn to flown;
The biggest dog has been q pup
Her lovers passed Wolves hunt in packs.
They sought for bigger game somehow
They seemed to see about her brow
The forky sign Of turkey tracks.
0, maidens, pluck not at the air!
The sweetest flowers have found
Grow rather close unto the ground,
AND higher places. are most bare.
Why, you had better win the grace
" one poor cussed African
1 Than win the eyes of every man
In love alone with his own face.
| AT last she nursed a new desire:
| che sighed, she wept for William Brown.
She watched the splendid sun go down
Like some great sailing ship a-tire;
| linen rose and checked her trunks right on.
And IN the cars she lunched and lunched,
And had her ticket punched and punched
| Until she came to Oregon.
she wore blue specs upon her nose,
She reached the limits of the lines.
AND then set out to reach the mines,
In rather short and manly clothes.
Her right hand held a parasol.
Her pocket held a Testament.
And thus equipped right on she went.
Went waterproof and waterfall.
She asked miner gazing down,
SLOW stirring something with spoon.
10 tell her true and tell her soon
What had become of William trowu.
ASCANSA
llen stirred his cocktail round and round
Then raised his head and sighed profound,
And said: Hes handed IN his checks,
Then care fed on her damaged cheek.
And she grew faint, did Mary Jane,
ana smelt her smelling salts in vain,
Yet wandered on wayworn and weak.
Until at last she sat her down
Upon a slopiug hill alone:
And there, good gracious; stood stone.
And To- that stone read William Brown.
so, William Brown! O, William Brown,
And here you rest at last" she said.
: With this lone stone above your head,
And forty miles from any town.
| will plant cypress trees, will,
And will build fence around,
And will fertIize the ground
With tears enough to turn a MILL"
She went and got hired man:
She brought him forty miles from town:
Then in the tail grass she sat down,
And babe him build as she should plan.
But Digger herders with their bands
they saw, and hurriedly they ran
And told bearded cattle man
That some one bullde d on his lands
He took rifle from the rack;
de girt him in his battle pelt,
He thrust two pistols in his belt.
Then mounted on his chargers back
md plunged ahead. But when they Showed
woman there, about his eyes
lie pulled his hat and he likewise
'ulled at his beard, and chewed and chewed.
It last he got him down and spake:
Oh, lady dear, what do you here?''
| build tomb unto my dear;
plant some flowers for his sake
he bearded man threw his two hands
bove his head, then brought them down,
nd cried, sob, am William Brown,
nd this the corner of my lands.
er specs fell off, her head fell back.
0me like lifted teapot lid
ne screamed-this ancient maiden did
hen, fainting, split herself, alack
light on the beard Of William Brown.
hen all the Diggers were amazed;
hey thought the lonely maiden crazed,
nd, circlinS there, they squatted down.
he preacher rode spotted mare
9 Salloped forty miles or more
e swore he never had before
zen bride or bridegroom half so fair.
nd all the miners, they came down
I'D feasted as the night advanced;
I'd all the Diggers drank and danced.
I'D cried, Big Ipjin, William Brown
Joaquin Miller.