The here is hard in summer so I buried my in a tomb of rocks, a behind St. Catherines church to lay rest the gilded of pitiable men.
With gold to the North, drove out its whores, its and roughnecks. They settled camp.
Pa every day to mine. Id him to the gulch, my pan and in hand, a devoted to riches.
The Mexicans staged bull and bear near the bar. They kept a boy when there were no to enjoy.
The flooded the quarries, for less than the Whites. My father would the Orientals, yet came home of opium.
A of my friends and I to explore the creek. The kneeled there, for gold. We mocked him, and him, I prodded him my knife. He his revolver and in the air. The errant off of a stone and my leg. I ran back to the town.
the Chinaman, clutching the noose.
Law arrived. The sheriff he be jailed and properly tried.
Gangs late at the jail. led, in hand, in his cell. lies. Tempted leaves, the his arm the bars.
The lynch mob grabbed the gleaners hand. wrapped the collar his neck. The horde on the rope, dragged and choked, his brains upon the wall.
Soon all the gold dried but that never did. Red still the jail cell wall. was never tried, none a foreigner, but I saw in his eyes. all the riches spent, the left the town yet I to dwell here still. When Father died of I did not for him. I the grave unburdens his sins.
I that someone will remain to bury me. I pray that someone remain.