University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER VVhen I see a prairie schooner Vfith the tongue a-pointing west IvVhat a mighty nameless longing Always swells and Hlls my breast. For it's headed toward a country I shall always love the best, Toward a land of stars and sunshine, Toward the prairies of the West. It's a wide and wondrous region, Naught its virgin beauty mars 'VVhere the plain is strewn with blossoms As the sky is strewn with stars. IVhere the air so keen and bracing Gives to life a joy and zest, lVIakes the pulses leap and tingle, In the blood there runs the VVest. And I know within the schooner, 'Neath its cover worn and brown, There are hearts with hope a-tingle, There is faith that will not down. Though a man may meet misfortune, Failure never is confessed, VVhen he mounts a prairie schooner VVith the tongue a-pointing west. So when from the ties that bind me I at last shall break away, Leave each sordid task behind me, As I surely shall some day, VVhen I choose a craft for cruising, ' Love or fortune as my quest, It will be a prairie schooner With the tongue a-pointing west. -Edward Everett Dale

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