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For we rode for our lives.. You shall hear how we fared.
In Tc :xi^, down by the Rio Grande.

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There was one chancc left, and you have but one,—
1 1:ilt, jump to ground, and shoot your horse;
CroLK.b under his carcass, and take j-our chance;
Ami if t.ic steers in their frantic course
Don't batter you both to pieces at once,
You may thank your star; if not, good-by
To the quickening kiss and the long-drawn sigh,
And I he open air ;i id the open sky,
Tn Texas, down by the Rio Grande,

The cattle gained on ns, and, j^st as I felt
For my old .six-shooter behind in my belt,
Down came the mustang, ;md down came we,
Clinging together, and— what was the rest?
A body that spread itself oti my breast,
Two arms that shielded my div.v.y head.
Two lips that hard on my lips were prest;
Then came thunder in my ears,
As over us surged the sea of steers.
Blows that heat blood into my eyes
And when f con Id rise—
Lasca was dead!

1 gorged out a grave n few feefe deep,
And there in harth's arms I laid her to sleep;
And there she is lying, and no one knows;
And Ihi: summer shines, and the winter snows;
For many a day the flowers have spread
A pall of petals over lit" head;
And the little <miv hawk hangs a.oit in the ;iir,
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And the sly coyote trots here and the:*:,