Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CALL OF THE WILD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON


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CALL OF THE WILD, by                    
First Line: The wild is calling, and we know
Last Line: Till some rube sheriff scares us home!
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Forests; Woods


THE Wild is calling, and we know
That we must answer—we must go
Far from these tame old city walls
To where the Great Adventure calls!
But we will seek the woodland scene
All fixed up in our big machine!
The Wild is calling, and we race
To seek the pleasures of the chase—
Like Daniel Boone, with gun and knife
We hurry to the forest strife—
A bear? A moose? We'll count it luck
If we can hit a single duck!
Yes—even as in boyhood dreams,
We'll range the mountains and the streams—
Like the fierce Indians of the past,
We'll shout defiance down the blast—
Like Davy Crockett we will roam
Till some rube sheriff scares us home!





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