From The West

I come from the West
where the illimitable mountains
lift up their heads
to the very silence of God,
where the vast wilderness
sits in silent brooding
on the truth.

I come from the West,
where, in a civilization
founded on the mine and the camp,
we believe that the saloon
and the theater has as good
a right to be open on Sunday,
as the church and the school.

I come from where we think that
it is the right of every American
to go to hell and be damned
if he wants to.

That’s not humor…that’s the truth. ~~C.E.S. Woods, 1852 - 1944

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