Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-03-30

lAs Idyl Of Orcgos,.l
By JOAQUIN MILLER.

To webfoot brothers loved fair
Young lady. ricn and good TO SCI
And OBJ, her black abundant hAirl
And Oh. her wonderous witchery.
Her father Kept q title farm;
These brothers kept her safe from harm:
From harm of cattle on the hin,
From thick necked bulls, loud believing
The Iive.orG morning. loud and Shrill
And lashing sides like anything;
From roaring bulls that tossed the saad
And paved the lilies from the land
There came q third young man. Es cana
From tar AID famous Boston town
He as not handsome, was not game.
BIZ he could cook . goose as brown
As any man that set foot on
The sunlit shores Of Oregon
This Boston man he taught the school.
Taught gentleness and love always;
Said love and kindness, as rule,
Would ultimstely make it pay.
He was 30 gentle, kind, that he
Could make q noun and verb area
So when, one day, the brothers grew.
All jealous and did strip to fight,
he gently stood between the two
And meekly told them twas not right.
4 have a higher, better plan,
Outspake this gentle Boston man
MY plan is this: Forget this fray
About that lily hand OF hers;
Go take your guns and hunt all day
High up yon lofty hill OF FRS,
And while you hunt, my loving doves,
Why, l will learn which one she loves.
The brothers sat the windy hill,
tt oir hair shone yellow. like spun gold,
Their rifles crossed their laps, but still
They sat and sighed and shook with cod.
Their hearts lay bleeding far below;
Above them cleaned white peaks Of snow.
Their hounds lay crouching slim and neat;
A spotted circle in the grass,
Their valley lay beneath their feet;
They heard the wide-winged eagles pass;
The eagle cleft the clouds above.
Yet what could they but sigh and love?
If could die, i" the elder sighed.
My dear young brother here might we'd
-Oh, would to heaven had died!
The younger sighed with Bonded head,
Then each looked each full in the face
And each sprang up and stood in place.
IF could die. . the elder spake.
Die by your hand, the world would say
Twas accident; and for her sake,
Dear brother, be it so, pray
Not that, the youngster nobly said,
Then tossed his gun and turned his head.
And fifty PAGES back he paced,
And as he paced he drew the ball;
Then sudden stopped and wheeled and faced
His brother to the death and fall.
Two shots rang wild upon the air,
But, lOl the two stood harmless there.
The eagle poised high IN the air;
Far, far below the believing
OF bullocks ceased, and everywhere
Vast silence sat all questioning.
The spotted hounds ran circling round,
Their red, wet noses to the ground.
And now each brother came to know
That ooht bod dro ftad ood hall
And for that fair girl far below
Had sought in vain to silence all
And then the two did gladly shake,
And thus the elder bravely spake:
~Now let US run right hastily
And tell the kind schoolmaster all,
Yea, yea, and if she choose not me,
But all on you her favors fall,
This valiant scene, till all life ends,
Dear brother, binds us best of friends"
The hounds sped down, a spotted line,
The bulls in tall, abundant grass,
Shook back their horns from bloom and vine
And trumpeted to see them pass;
They were so fair, they loved SO true,
These brothers scarce knew what to do.
They sough. the kind schoolmaster out
AS swift as sweeps the light of morn;
They could but love. they could not doubt
This man SO gentle, in horn.
They cried: Now, whose the lily hand.
That lady Of this webfoot land?'
They bowed before the big nosed man,
That long-nosed man from Boston town;
They talked only lovers can,
They talked, but he could only frown;
And still they talked, and still they plead;
1t was a pleading with the dead.
At last this Boston man did speak:
Her father has q thousand ceows,
An hundred bulls all fat and slick;
"a a Sn M hsnn
The brothers eyes stuck out thereat
So far you might have hung your hat.
II liked the looks Of this big heouse-
My lovely boys, won t you come in?
Her father has thousand ceows,
He also has heap OF tin.
The guirl? Oh, yes, the guirl you see,
The guirl just meow she married me"