‘Me Old Copper Collar’ poem from Dan Cushman’s “The Old Copper Collar”
Below is a small poem from “The Old Copper Collar,” a short novel by Montana author Dan Cushman:
Oh, me old copper collar
It makes me heart so proud;
When I’m wearing me copper collar
I stand out in the crowd;
Throughout the land there’s none so
grand,
I want you all to see
This beautiful copper collar
That the Company gave to me!
Author unknown. Cushman did not claim to be the author of the poem:
“Thus some poetic reporter on one of H. B.’s [Clark’s] newspapers.”