Monday, September 12, 2011

Extract from "The Cattle Country" by E. Pauline Johnson


Foothills to the Rockies lifting
Brown, and blue, and green
Warm Alberta sunlight drifting
Over leagues between.

That's the country of the ranges,
Plain and prairie land,
And the God who never changes
Holds it in His hand.


by E. Pauline Johnson
One of Canada's most popular and successful writers at the turn of the 19th century.
Born to a Mohawk Native-Canadian father and an English mother, she used the Mohawk name Tekahionwake.
photo of the Qu'appelle Valley, Saskatchewan

poem category : The Good Earth