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Title: Rhymes of a Roughneck
Author: Pat O'Cotter
Release Date: December 22, 2003 [eBook #10515]
Language: English
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RHYMES OF A ROUGHNECK
BY
PAT O'COTTER
1918
DEDICATED
TO
ALASKA
The home of the tin can and dog,
A waste of snow, ice, and moss.
The graveyard of ambitions,
The by-word for hell,
The home of the famed double cross.
Men come here for gold,
Ambitious for wealth
They stick--for they can't get away,
They dig, drink, and die,
And then go to hell,
To pay for their last sucker play--
ALASKA
CONTENTS
THE BIRTH OF THE LAND
A WOMAN, A DOG, AND A WALNUT TREE
WHEN THE WATER STARTS TO RUN
THE THROWBACK
THE MALAMUTE
UNSATISFIED
THE PROSPECTOR
IF
US FOR SAM
HOW LONG
THAT 30 U.
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