Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!derek
From: derek@uwvax.UUCP (Derek Zahn)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: The Ghost
Message-ID: <212@uwvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 10:03:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwvax.212
Posted: Tue Jun  4 10:03:47 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 12:12:19 EDT
Distribution: net
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Lines: 25

Through that dark and cloudy night
The sentries of the White did ride,
Searching for Zapata's ghost
With quiet tremblings deep inside.

And as they rode across the sand
The death-chilled wind made cold their bones,
And whispered of extinguished fires;
Of broken trees and weathered stones.

The senorita drove them on;
Her voice, remembered, would not fade.
Her dress was red with blood, and torn
In the schoolyard where the children played.

And to this day the sentries ride
On valiant steeds that make no sound.
Their fists are clenched, the knuckles white --
Zapata's ghost remains unfound.

derek
-- 
Derek Zahn @ wisconsin
...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,sfwin,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!derek
derek@wisc-rsch.arpa