The soil here is hard in so I my father in a tomb of rocks, a plot behind St. church to lay rest the gilded dreams of men.
With found to the North, Quartzburg out its whores, its and roughnecks. They settled camp.
Pa left day to mine. Id him to the gulch, my pan and in hand, a devoted to riches.
The often staged bull and fights near the bar. They a boy entertained when were no hangings to enjoy.
The flooded the quarries, for less than the Whites. My father would the Orientals, yet came reeking of opium.
A group of my and I to explore the creek. The kneeled there, for gold. We him, and pushed him, I prodded him my knife. He his revolver and in the air. The bullet off of a stone and my leg. I ran bawling to the town.
the Chinaman, clutching the noose.
Law arrived. The sheriff that he be jailed and tried.
amassed late at the jail. led, in hand, in his cell. lies. Tempted leaves, the his arm the bars.
The lynch mob swiftly the gleaners hand. Father the collar his neck. The yanked on the rope, Chinaman and choked, his brains dashed the wall.
all the gold mines dried but blood 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 people left the yet I stayed to here still. When died of drink I did not for him. I pray the unburdens his sins.
I pray that will remain to bury me. I pray someone will remain.