Image 5 of Rocky Mountain husbandman (Diamond City, Mont.), September 27, 1883

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MY BONNIE BARK My bonnie bark oer the waters dark Floats with a dreamful motio Toward the west where the billows crest In the sunset gilds the ocean Like wings of snow the white sails glow Within the gorgeous splendor That fills the skies with brilliant yes Half sorrowful half tender The waves leap high and fret and sigh With soft regretful droning The fitful Wind lags far behind Now laughing and now moaning Yet on and on and ever on My bonnie bark keeps gliding Toward the mart my dreamful heart Holds sacred and abiding For staunch and true my gallant crew Undaunted pull together Neath skies of light or shades of night In foul or Annny weather Hopes watchful eyes scan waves and skies In loving patience ever What tho the storm bring dire alrm She faints or falters never Love bravely atwjds with steady hand Her trackless pathway steering And true always the helm obeys My bark bounds on unveering I Faith turns her eyedswthirestftl sighs Toward the fields lyesian That stretch away in endless day Hopes sweet and sure fruition Ier eyes diseern the lights that burn Beyond the hills terrestial To guide us oer lifes