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THE HOME COMING (AFTER THE DEATH OF BUFFALO BILL), by                    
First Line: They have waited over yonder through the long
Last Line: Friends!
Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Death; Native Americans;" Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THEY have waited over yonder through the long years' cloudy haze,
Foes of the plume-topped bonnet, friends of the prairie days—
Heroes of song and story, idols of picture and book,
Sherman, dashing Phil Sheridan, Hazen and Howard and Crooke—
Leaders who rode with the guidons, Custer and Merritt and Carr,
Chiefs of the lost red legions, vanished and scattered afar—
Sitting Bull and Satanta, Quanah and Rain-in-the-Face—
Lance-thrusting, merciless riders, lords of a fast-dying race!
Soldiers, plainsmen and rangers, chiefs of Comanche and Sioux,
Such were his friends and his rivals, such were the Men whom he knew!
He had seen the old West in its springtime, he was part of the days that are
past,
When the arrow and spear sought their targets, and the bullets were thick on the
blast—
When the buffalo herds rumbled onwards, with the sun glinting bright on each
horn,
And the Pony Express rode its mission, ere the wire and the railroad were
born—
He lived on past the Time that has vanished—but the trail of his warrior-
life ends—
Scout, plainsman, and slayer of chieftains—at last he has followed his
friends!





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