Happy days; carolings of Colorado, etc.

Chapter 11: I’LL SING SOME SONGS FOR FAME TO-NIGHT

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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.

I’LL SING SOME SONGS FOR FAME TO-NIGHT

Respected fellow traveler, ’tho I can carol like a bird

Dame Fame my voice has never heard.

Hear, then, congenial tourist, comrade with delight—

I’ll sing some songs for Fame to-night.

Fame oft has heard the wail of Sadness;

Fame knows the lay of Trouble well,

Then I will sing for her the songs of gladness,

For her, for her, the tale of Joy I’ll tell.