Prairie II
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prairie mother, I am one of your boys. -TI have loved the prairie as a man with a heart shotfull of pain over love. Here I know I will hanker after nothing so much asone more sunrise or a sky moon of fire doubled toa river moon of water. I speak of new cities and new people. I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,a sun dropped in the west. I tell you there is nothing in the worldonly an ocean of to-morrows,a sky of to-morrows. I am a brother of the cornhuskers who sayat sundown:To-morrow is a day. ik
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