Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 229
e sun-warmed mesas cool.And well they need both wind and speed When the gray coyote pack,By twos and threes from the hidden hills, Breathes hot on the pronghorns track. Oh, the red hawk knows where the gophersrun. The mice hear the elf-owl call,The badger hunts for the squirrel hills; But man he… … And now we lurk in the scrub by day, And now we slink in the dark;And only the foolish rabbits quake, And only the squirrels hark.And we must bark at the mesa moon, And round by the sheep-folds prowl,With never a kill that is worth our skill, To raise at our hunting howl.And we must eat of the…
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