THE WEST (POEM)
Malloch, Douglas
The West By DOUGLAS MALLOCH In "The American Lumberman" MEN look to the east for the dawning things, for the light of a rising sun, But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things...
...It is finding its way into the hearts and voices of other communities as a rousing song of neighborhood spirit.—Editor's Note...
...But the westward sun is a sunset sun, is the sun of a hope fulfilled...
...The West By DOUGLAS MALLOCH In "The American Lumberman" MEN look to the east for the dawning things, for the light of a rising sun, But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done...
...And into the waiting West they go with the dream-child of the East And find the hopes that they hoped of old are a hundred-fold increased...
...This poem, set to music by Professor L. A. Coerne of the University of Wisconsin School of Music, was sung inspiringly at the Sauk City social center celebration...
...The eastward sun is a newmade hope from the dark of the night distilled...
...So out of the East they have always come, the cradle that saw the birth Of all the heart-warm hopes of man and all the hopes of earth— For out of the East arose a Christ and out of the East has gleamed The dearest dream and the clearest dream that ever a prophet dreamed...
...For there in the East we dreamed the dreams of the things we hope to do, And here in the West, the crimson West, the dreams of the East come true...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
