East and West

East and West is a classic collection of American Western poetry by Bret Harte.

And he says that the mountains are fairer
For once being held in your thought; That each rock holds a wealth that is rarer
Than ever by gold-seeker sought
(Which are words he would put in these pages,
By a party not given to guile;
Which the same not, at date, paying wages,
Might produce in the sinful a smile).