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    The Great Round-up

    By anonymous | Cowboy Poetry | 0 comment | 7 February, 2017 | 0

    When I think of the last great round-up,
    On the eve of eternity’s dawn,
    I think of the past of the cowboys
    Who have been with us here and are gone.
    And I wonder if any will greet me
    On the sands of the evergreen shore
    With a hearty, “God bless you, old fellow,”
    That I’ve met with so often before.

    I think of the big-hearted fellows
    Who will divide with you, blanket and bread,
    With a piece of stray beef well roasted,
    And charge for it never a red.
    I often look upward and wonder
    If the green fields will seem half so fair,
    If any the wrong trail have taken
    And fail to “be in” over there.

    For the trail that leads down to perdition
    Is paved all the way with good deeds,
    But in the great round-up of ages,
    Dear boys, this won’t answer your needs.
    But the way to green pastures, though narrow,
    Leads straight to the home in the sky,
    And Jesus will give you the passports
    To the land of the sweet by and by.

    For the Saviour has taken the contract
    To deliver all those who believe,
    At the headquarters ranch of His Father,
    In the great range where none can deceive.
    The Inspector will stand at the gateway
    And the herd, one by one, will go by,
    —
    The round-up by the angels in judgment
    Must past ‘neath His all-seeing eye.

    No maverick or slick will be tallied
    In the great book of life in his home,
    For he knows all the brands and the earmarks
    That down through the ages have come.
    But along with the tailings and sleepers
    The strays must turn from the gate;
    No road brand to gain them admission,
    But the awful sad cry of “too late.”

    Yet I trust, in the last great round-up,
    When the rider shall cut the big herd,
    That the cowboys shall be represented
    In the earmark and brand of the Lord;
    To be shipped to the bright mystic regions
    Over there in green pastures to lie,
    And led by the crystal still waters,
    In that home of the sweet by and by.

    cattle, ranch, roundup

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