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WILDCAT LEDGE (COLORADO), by                    
First Line: The platte, long wandering but caught at last
Last Line: "with their exultant cry: ""the hills! The hills!"
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Platte River; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


The Platte, long wandering, but caught at last
In old Missouri's arms, told there a tale . . .
The prairies heard: like seekers of the grail
They hurried on a quest and cleaving fast,
Wide windy golden seas of harvest, passed,
Green sandalled through Nebraska on a trail
That Kansas follows, too. It leads where pale
Virginity gives birth to snow and blast. . .

They near and fling rich flowered robes away;
In scant grass vesture, pilgrim plains are torn
And bruised, yet stumble forward. Tiptoe, they;
Unheeding spite of stone and thrust of thorn;
Pause on a cliff and Colorado thrills
With their exultant cry: "The hills! The hills!"





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