<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561324" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Life In The West.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ho! brothers--come hither and list to my story--<br>Merry and brief will the narrative be.<br>Here, like a monarch, I reign in my glory--<br>Master am I, boys, of all that I see!<br>Where once frowned a forest, a garden is smiling--<br>The meadow and moorland are marshes no more;<br>And there curls the smoke of my cottage, beguiling<br>The children who cluster like grapes round my door.<br>Then enter, boys; cheerly, boys, enter and rest;<br>The land of the heart is the land of the West!<br>Oho, boys!--oho, boys!--oho!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Talk not of the town, boys--give me the broad prairie,<br>Where man, like the wind, roams impulsive and free:<br>Behold how its beautiful colors all vary,<br>Like those of the clouds, or the deep-rolling sea!<br>A life in the woods, boys, is even as changing;<br>With proud independence we season our cheer,<br>And those who the world are for happiness ranging,<br>Won't find it at all if they don't find it here.<br>Then enter, boys; cheerly, boys, enter and rest!<br>I'll show you the life, boys, we live in the West!<br>Oho, boys!--oho, boys!--oho!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Here, brothers, secure from all turmoil and danger,<br>We reap what we sow, for the soil is our own;<br>We spread hospitality's board for the stranger,<br>And care not a jot for the king on his throne.<br>We never know want, for we live by our labor,<br>And in it contentment and happiness find;<br>We do what we can for a friend or a neighbor,<br>And die, boys, in peace and good-will to mankind.<br>Then enter, boys; cheerly, boys, enter and rest;<br>You know how we live, boys, and die in the West!<br>Oho, boys!--oho, boys!--oho!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Pope+Morris">George Pope Morris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561324" data-title="Life In The West. de George Pope Morris" data-description="Ho! brothers--come hither and list to my story-- Merry and brief will the narrative be. Here, like a monarch, I reign in my glory-- Master am I, boys, of all that I see! Where once frowned a forest, a garden is smiling-- The meadow and moorland ar..."></div> </div> </div>

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