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Go West Young Man
Contributed by
tifrob
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Saturday, 3rd July 2004 @ 08:42:12 PM in AEST
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“Go west young man” someone said,
So folks everywhere began to tread,
Explorers saw and passed on the news,
Then the pilgrims went searching too,
Land everywhere so it seemed,
Beautiful land and air so clean,
Rivers, lakes and mountains high,
Valleys, Plaines and beautiful skies.
“Go west young man” read the lad,
It was the best idea he ever had,
A wagon train was going that way,
He was going west, leaving today,
The lad grew from a boy to a man,
He became a cowboy in this land,
He rode horses and wrangled cows,
He slept outside on the ground.
“Go west young man” was the quote,
Men flocked just carrying their tote,
They were running to their dreams,
Finding a fortune in gold it seems,
Back breaking work all for gold,
Many men died mining their hold,
Men, men and more men came,
Few found fortune ~ Few found fame.
“Go west young man” is in the past,
This land filled up relatively fast,
Explorers, pilgrims and cowboys too,
In history books with stories to view,
If they could see this land of their’s,
If they could once more breath the air,
Would they wonder what went wrong,
To their land and beautiful homes?
“Go west young man,” someone’s words,
Who ever said them ~ He was heard,
The pilgrims have long since past,
And the gold rush didn’t last,
The cowboy ~ There’s still a few,
That era is almost through,
Slaves were freed and women vote,
“Go west young man” a biased quote.
“Go west young man”, century’s fade,
Progress ensued ~ To this land’s dismay
Land no where so it seems,
No more beautiful lakes and streams,
Mountains high have been invaded too,
No where is sacred ~ No place immune,
The forests depleted ~ The sky is polluted,
The wildlife has been pillaged and looted.
“Go west young man” is heard again,
But the west is burning ~ Will it end?
Fires ~ Fires ~ Human mistakes,
The west is burning in it's wake,
Earth quakes to plague the west,
Destroying all in it’s quest,
Yet, this journey is as it began,
Calling out. “Go West Young Man.”
"Go West Young Man" ~ A quote coined by Horace Greely.
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Re: Go West Young Man
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by Former_Member on
Saturday, 3rd July 2004 @ 10:23:03 PM AEST
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This is an outstanding piece of work. I was very impressed with this. It is so sad that all of it is true. The beauty being destroyed by man. It gets worse year after year.
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Re: Go West Young Man
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by ladyfawn on
Saturday, 3rd July 2004 @ 10:30:03 PM AEST
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very thought provoking poem, makes me think of our history in more detail, i live on a beautiful mountain in a forest, and yes we have clear strems, still, but i know how sad it makes me when i see trees cut, where i live daniel boone passed through and made his fort close by, i wonder what they would all think today, hugs n' love nessa
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