Texas Tiger

Tiger found this poem which describes how Texas came to be... Texas, but couldn't find the author of the poem. Using my Super Googling Power™ (and a certain amount of persistence), I tracked down this page which attributes the poem to E. U. Cook. Searching on this name unfortunately produces vast amounts of cruft from some Euroweenie named Cook, but more persistence found this page about The First Mortgage, also by one E. U. Cook, containing this poem:

Author's Preface

Now reader, go along with me,
Away back to Eternity;
Go back beyond the days of youth,
Where everything that was, was truth.

Beyond the sorrow and the tears,
Beyond the suffering and fears,
Beyond the anguish and the gloom,
Beyond the shadow of the tomb.

Beyond all trouble and all pain,
Beyond all losses and all gain,
Beyond all sobs and bitter sighs,
Beyond the limit of the skies.

Before there was a ray of light,
Before there was a day or night,
Before a prayer was ever prayed,
Before the world was ever made.

Before there was a moon, or sun,
Before old time itself begun;
Before there was a now, or then,
Before there was a where, or when.

Before there was a 'here', or 'there',
Or anything, or anywhere;
Go back a hundred thousand years,
And farther still, though filled with fears.

Go back until within the past,
You fail to find the place at last
Where the beginning you can see,
At one end of Eternity.

Go back until there's not a trace
Of anything, but God and space;
God all around, below, above;
Unlimited in power and love.

Away back here removed from sight,
Where everything that was, was right;
Away back here removed from sin,
Is where my story does begin.

The style of which seems to clinch the question. Google does indeed know everything - except what question you need to ask it...

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