Where can you find the poem The Other Pioneers?

Answer 1

The Other Pioneers

By Roberto Felix salazar

Now I must write

Of those of mine who rode these plains

long years before the Saxon and the Irish came

Of those who plowed the land and built the towns

and gave the towns' soft woven Spanish names

Of those who moved across the Rio Grande,

toward the heist(?)of Texas snake and Indian yell

Of men who from the earth made thick walled homes

and from the earth raised churches to their God

and of the wives who bore them sons

and smiled with knowing joy

They say the Texan sun rise golden red with promised wealth

and so the Texas sun sank golden yet with wealth unspent

Here! they said, Here to live (?) and here to love (?)!

Here's to land for our sons and the sons of our sons!

And they sang the songs of ancient Spain

and they made new songs to fit new needs

They cleared the brush and planted the corn

and saw green stalks turn black from lack of rain

They roamed the plains behind the herds

and stood the Indians cruel attacks

and there was death and there was sweat

and there were tears and the women prayed

and the years moved on

Those who were first placed in graves

beside the broad Mezquite and the tall Nopal

Gentle mothers left their graces and their art

and stalled with fathers' pride and manly strength