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Show " THE LONE PRAIRIE. Tho most popular song in the cattle cat-tle country Is "The Cowboy's Lament." B. M. Bower, author of many Western West-ern novels, contributes to the Popular Popu-lar Magazine what purports to be the real, original "Lament," and adds: "In behalf of tho cowboy let mo hasten to assure you that I never knew one who took it seriously; they always sing it with a twinkle in the eyes and a quirk of the lips to prove that the humor Is not lost upon them." "Oh, bury too not on the lone prairie " These words came low and mournfully mourn-fully From the pallid lips of a youth who . lay On his dying bed at the close ot day. Ho had wasted and pined, till o'er his brow Death's shadows wore gathering quickly now. And he thought of his home as the end drew nigh, As the cowboys gathered lo sec hlra die. "It matters not, so I've heen told, Where tho body lies when tho heart grows cold. Yet grant, oh, grant this boon to mo And bury me not on the lono prairie. "I had always hoped to he laid when I died In the old churchyard on tho green hillside; By my father's grave, oh, bury mo, And bury mo not on the lono prairlcj "Oh, bury mo where a mother's prayer And n sister's tears may mingle there; Where mj- friends may come and weep o'er me Oh, hury mo not on the lone prairie! "Oh, bury me not " but his volco failed there, And they gave no heed to his dying prayer. In a narrow grave, just six by three And they burled him there on the lone prairie. CHORUS. Oh. bury mo not on the lone prairie Wnoro the wild coyotes will howl o'er me. Whero the rattlesnakes hiss and tho wind goes freo, j Ohbury me not on tho lono prairie. it J . i A- L |