<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Farewell to Idaho</b></span><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div style="border: 0px solid; width: 113px; float: right; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style fLt mR10"><div style="border: 0px solid; width: 48px; float: right; overflow: hidden;"><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like at300b" fb:like:layout="button_count" style="color: rgb(63, 111, 144); cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: initial; float: left; padding: 0px 2px; width: auto; display: inline-block;"><div class="fb-like fb_iframe_widget" data-layout="button_count" data-show_faces="false" data-share="false" data-action="like" data-width="90" data-height="25" data-font="arial" data-href="http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4246/farewell-to-idaho.html" data-send="false" fb-xfbml-state="rendered" fb-iframe-plugin-query="action=like&app_id=172525162793917&container_width=0&font=arial&height=25&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryatlas.com%2Fpoetry%2Fpoem%2F4246%2Ffarewell-to-idaho.html&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&send=false&share=false&show_faces=false&width=90" style="display: inline-block; position: relative; line-height: 12px; height: 25px;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: bottom; width: 90px; height: 28px;"><iframe name="f22de13e5197aae" width="90px" height="25px" data-testid="fb:like Facebook Social Plugin" title="fb:like Facebook Social Plugin" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" allow="encrypted-media" src="https://www.facebook.com/v2.6/plugins/like.php?action=like&app_id=172525162793917&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df32bccb7cc8407%26domain%3Dwww.poetryatlas.com%26is_canvas%3Dfalse%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.poetryatlas.com%252Ff1d981544726d78%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=0&font=arial&height=25&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryatlas.com%2Fpoetry%2Fpoem%2F4246%2Ffarewell-to-idaho.html&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&send=false&share=false&show_faces=false&width=90" class="" style="position: absolute; border-style: none; visibility: visible; width: 90px; height: 28px;"></iframe></span></div></a></div><div style="border: 0px solid; width: 58px; float: right; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden;"><a class="addthis_button_tweet at300b" style="color: rgb(63, 111, 144); cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: initial; float: left; padding: 0px 2px; width: auto; display: inline-block;"><div class="tweet_iframe_widget" style="width: 62px; height: 25px;"><iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" class="twitter-share-button twitter-share-button-rendered twitter-tweet-button" title="Twitter Tweet Button" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.c4bdc17e77719578b594d5555bee90db.en.html#dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryatlas.com%2Fpoetry%2Fpoem%2F4246%2Ffarewell-to-idaho.html&size=m&text=Farewell%20to%20Idaho%20by%20H.%20F.%20Johnson%20-%20Poetry%20Atlas%3A&time=1663945080314&type=share&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryatlas.com%2Fpoetry%2Fpoem%2F4246%2Ffarewell-to-idaho.html%23.Yy3JdeMcGHM.twitter" data-url="http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4246/farewell-to-idaho.html#.Yy3JdeMcGHM.twitter" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 73px; height: 20px;"></iframe></div></a></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>by H. F. Johnson</div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Come all ye heroes of the land,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">We'll sing of Western life, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Ye pioneers who led the van </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Through danger, toil and strife; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Who planted freedom's starry flag,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">In spite of savage foe, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Upon the rugged mountain peaks </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">And plains of Idaho. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">You saw the land in days of yore, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">When savage foes were 'round; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">You heard, through valley, cove and dell,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The warwhoop's dismal sound; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">You've scaled her lofty mountain peaks,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">You've crossed the torrents arch, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">You've met the grizzly in his path, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The warrior on his march. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The wild deer bounded from his lair,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">And sped across the land; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The elk. that noblest beast of chase, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Were seen on every hand; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The cougar's savage growl was heard,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The gray wolf's dismal howl, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The coyote yelping on the plain,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Made music for us all. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The scene has changed; alas, no more </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The wild deer scuds the plain,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The lordly elk. a sylvan god,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">With us but few remain; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Our savage foeman. once so strong, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Is feeble now at best, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">His star of empire, once so grand,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Is setting in the West. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">We will see no more the trapper's day</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The hunters fame is gone, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The game and fur have passed away,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">No more can they return; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">But in their stead domestic life </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Is teeming on the hills, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The lowing herds and tinkling bells,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The air with music fills. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The civilizing magic wand </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Has touched the primal plain: </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Where roamed the savage beasts of prey </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Now waves the golden grain; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Where stood the dusky warrior's lodge </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The school house proudly stands, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Where rose the savage warrior's cry </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The songs of peace ascend. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Where, in the mountains' solitude,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Was heard but nature's song, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The miner's pick and anvil's-ring </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The chorus still prolong; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">The mountains yield their precious store </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">To beautify the land; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">While labor, toil and enterprise </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Is seen on every hand. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">While some have reached the golden shore </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">And dwell in fairy land, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Some struggle on with hope's bright star </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Still shining- in the van; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">While some beneath the churchyard sleep,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Some rest in unknown graves,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Some met the storm king on the deep, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">And sleep beneath the waves. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">To those who reached the golden shore </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">By the just and honest way,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">May peace and plenty crown their board,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Till life shall pass away; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">To those who struggle on in hope </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">We give a hearty cheer; </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">To those who sleep in unknown graves </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">We drop a friendly tear.</span></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>