Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PATH TO PANAMA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON


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THE PATH TO PANAMA, by                    
First Line: Bring your dredges, uncle sam
Last Line: Along the path to panama.
Subject(s): Panama. American Invasion, 1989; Travel; Journeys; Trips


Bring your dredges, Uncle Sam,
Now they're done at Gatun Dam,
Open up our channel mouth
For the traffic going south,

Dig it deep and dig it wide,
Make Invention help the tide,
For the busiest place you ever saw
Will be the Path to Panama.

Stand upon the dock with me
In a year or two and see!
"Pilot," calls some Southern Star,
"How much water on the bar?"
"Forty feet or there about,
Enough to float the navy out—
With all the water you can draw,
We're on the Path to Panama."

Upon the Path to Panama!
Where gulls have nuggets in their craw—
Where Golden Gates are swinging free,
And doughnuts ripen on the tree—
Where fish have "silver sides" and skies
Are painted rich with "Diamond Dyes"—
And "swellest" tides without a flaw
Will sweep the Path to Panama.

And now's the time we're glad to be
Upon this highway of the sea.
'Tis Uncle Samuel's royal road,
Where all the nations will "be showed,"
For the biggest fair you ever saw
Will grace the Path to Panama.
"So bring you ma and bring your pa"
Along the Path to Panama.





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