Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AT SEATTLE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON First Line: Well, I'm takin' in seattle Last Line: Cause they feel their growin' pains! Subject(s): Clergy; Sea Voyages; Seattle, Washington; Spirituality; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States | ||||||||
Well, I'm takin' in Seattle, As the postal mark will show And I've been here once before, But you wouldn't ever know. For the place has been a-changin' Like a girl of sweet sixteen, And a fourteen-story buildin' Stands as stately as a queen. And then little baby oceans That got tangled in the hills Caught the new "Seattle Spirit" And are runnin' boats and mills. And I kind o' lose my compass, For the car lines twist like snakes Till I seem about to meet myself A-comin' round the lakes. Why, it's one conglomeration Of the city and the sea, And it makes me pause and wonder What its destiny will be. As I watched a train, a-glitterin' Like a comet on the night, It dove beneath the city, And again appeared in sight. And they're diggin' out a channel To Lake Washington the sweet, Where the ships of Uncle Samuel Can come and wash their feet. And they took old Denny Mountain And they cast it in the sea, For their faith is mostly workin' And a-bringin' things to be. Of course the latest thing in Fairs Is the A. Y. P. unique Where your dollars love to linger As you "pay 'em in a streak." I had watched the fiery serpents Climbin' up the Bon Marche And was loafin' 'round among the parks That bloom along the bay, When a measly little fellow Said, a-squeakin' through his nose, "Don't it make a Beaver jealous The way Seattle grows?" And I straightened up my shoulders Like a boy of twenty-two, And I said, "The Western Spirit Should be big enough for TWO." So here's to Portland and Seattle With their treasures and their trains, But they needn't knock each other 'Cause they feel their growin' pains! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WESTERN WAGONS by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET DRIVING WEST IN 1970 by ROBERT BLY IN THE HELLGATE WIND by MADELINE DEFREES A PERIOD PORTRAIT OF SYMPATHY by EDWARD DORN ASSORTED COMPLIMENTS by EDWARD DORN AT THE COWBOY PANEL by EDWARD DORN A HUSTLE FOR THE FAIR by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON |
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