Happy days; carolings of Colorado, etc.

Chapter 10: IN THE WILD WILD-WOODS TO-DAY

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A collection of lyrical poems and brief prose sketches that celebrate Colorado's natural scenery and frontier memories. The verses praise mountain and prairie landscapes, clear skies, rivers and woodlands, and combine joyful exhortation, pastoral reverie, and rustic reminiscence of early regional life. Imagery of angling, hunting, camping, and seasonal pleasures recurs alongside reflections on gladness, love, and simple living. Short prose pieces offer travel-minded vignettes of lakes and mountain canyons, together creating an overall tone of affectionate local portraiture and unpretentious lyricism.

IN THE WILD WILD-WOODS TO-DAY

Away—far away—in the wild wild-woods to-day!

Underneath the spreading, cool, green boughs sitting,

Nesting birds above us flitting,

Seem to sing—seem to say:

“Mortals sad, be good, be good—be glad—be gay!”

Little hearts full of glee,

Happy as happy can be;

In the wavy bushes seen,

In the tall, tufted tree-tops between,

Singing, singing merrily,

Singing, singing—seem to say:

“Mortals sad, be good, be good—be glad to-day!”