“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day. Anonymous: Cowboy Songs
“The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen.Thomas Hardy
“A strong song tows us, long earsick. Blind, we follow rain slant, spray flick to fields we do not know. Basil Bunting
“The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye, An’ it looks like it’s climbin’ clear up to the sky. Oscar Hammerstein (II)
“These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name— The prairies. William Cullen Bryant