The Last of the Cowboys / Mary Carolyn Davies

The Last of the Cowboys  (1922)  by Mary Carolyn Davies

from Poetry, June 1922

The Last of the Cowboys

They have gone down like the sunset, who like the sun
Were mighty and high and scornful; their hour is done.
Slowly into the night they ride, each one.
 
They have gone down like the sunset, sharp on the hill.
A moment against the sky they stood, until
The dark came down and they met it, stoic and still.
 

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