The Land We Dreamed: Poems

Title Page, Frontispiece, Copyright, Dedication

The Land We Dreamed The Land We Dreamed Poems Joe Survant Copyright © 2014 by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine University, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. All rights reserved. Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008 www.kentuckypress.com Frontispiece: Franquelin’s map of Louisiana, 1684. This is one of the earliest known maps of North America. (Courtesy of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress) Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0-8131-4458-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8131-4461-0 (pdf) ISBN 978-0-8131-4460-3 (epub) This book is printed on acid-free paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. Manufactured in the United States of America. Member of the Association of American University Presses for Jeannie, too soon gone We . . . traveled about thirty miles through thick cane and reed, and as the cane ceased . . . a new sky and strange earth seemed to be presented to our view. So rich a soil we had never seen before; covered with clover in full bloom. . . . We felt ourselves as passengers through a wilderness just arrived at the fields of Elysium, or at the garden where was no forbidden fruit. —Felix Walker, with Daniel Boone, March 10, 1775 Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization , marching single file—the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur trader and hunter, the cattleraiser , the pioneer farmer—and the frontier has passed by. —Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893 ...