Claremore Mound

OKLAHOMA POEMS

CLAREMORE MOUND

Claremore Mound is a picnic place

For people all around-

They never think of the battle

Fought on that sacred ground.

They eat there in that haunted spot,

They throw tin cans about,

And more than one has tried his luck

At digging a skeleton out.

Skeletons with the skull crushed in,

And arrows through their breasts,

Have been dug out of the burial place,

Disturbed in their last rest.

"Twas the Indians' last battle,

'T was the warriors' last ride;

They all were buried on Claremore Mound,

They were buried side by side.

Better they rest in their last sleep,

Their Happy Hunting Ground-.

They died in a great battle,

So let their sleep be sound.