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THEIR LAST STAND by DONA WAYLAND

First Line: PEERING TENSELY WITH NAKED CURIOSITY
Last Line: HUNTED -- THEY TAKE THEIR LAST STAND.
Subject(s): MUSTANGS;

Peering tensely with naked curiosity
They wander high among the hills,
Mustangs, the last of a race rapidly vanishing ...
Clouds blown through the great crossways
In endless procession above their heads.
Plunderers -- doomed to extinction.
Majestic, free they speed over the horizon,
Up the dried lava streams,
Shadows that travel far
Among a duel of opposing forces.
Upon the mountain top,
Watching the guarded places,
Listening to whispers of the forest,
Hunted -- they take their last stand.



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