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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE COWBOY TO HIS FRIEND IN NEED, by BURKE JENKINS
First Line: You're very well polished, I'm free to confess
Last Line: You forty-five caliber colt!
Subject(s): Cowboys; Guns; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States
First Line: You're very well polished, I'm free to confess
Last Line: You forty-five caliber colt!
Subject(s): Cowboys; Guns; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States
YOU'RE very well polished, I'm free to confess,
Well balanced, well rounded, a power for right;
But cool and collected,—no steel could be less;
You're primed for continual fight.
Your voice is a bellicose bark of ill-will,
On hatred and choler you seem to have fed;
But when I control you, your temper is nil;
In fact, you're most easily led.
Though lead is your diet and fight is your fun,
I simply can't give you the jolt;
For I love you, you blessed old son-of-a-gun,—
You forty-five caliber Colt!
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