An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s
“The Feet of the Young Men”
By Merrill D. Beal
When Yellowstone Park is opened then the smokes of council rise,
Pleasant smokes ’ere yet twixt trail and trail they choose.
Then the ropes and girths are tested while they pack their last supplies,
Now the young men head for camps beyond the Tetons!
Faith will lead them to those altars, hope will light them to that shrine,
Pilot knobs will safely guide them to their goal.
They must go, go, go, away from home!
On the summit of the world they’re overdue.
Away! The trail is clear before you,