The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-09-04
The Land Of Dixie.

pfOau palmetto grows,
Aud the mighty king of waters, swiftly
restle. :, Gibbs and flows,
There Is evidence of progress; quickly
heats the Southern l.eart,
Pulsing in this land of promise, hastinG
onward to Its mart.
Gone the paralyzing dcadnesq Of the ole
disfranchised days,
Gone the naughty Southern. languor, fol
the industry that pays,
Recognizing now the power and the dig
~ nifty of toll,
Fearing not that honest labor might som'
gentle fingers soil.
Clear. throughout the land of Dixie, sound
the busy hum Of trade,
And her myriad resources avenues to wealth
are made.
swifter than the nimble goddess famed il
mythologic lore,
Runs the Southern railroad city aeetly
dashing to the fore.
Now the franehiAed land of Dixie Who's
her mettle and her steel,
Vanquished once by force Of numbers, now
she wins by iron heel.
Princess Of the South, AtlNntal girt abOu
With iron bands,
Through her might of skill and science
points the way in Dixie's land.
Marvellous in growth and progress, well
may Northern centres dread
All her varied competitions, energies o.
heart and head;
Hidden in the teeming bosom Of her hall
developed earth,
Lie rich treasures. that unfolded, evidence
unmeasured worth.
Mighty forges, west and northwsrd stand
and gaze with wondering eyep,
While the southern manufactures rival
them in enterprise;
Not the dread OF lower tariff nor the hydra
OF free trade,
Half the havoc could accomplish this
competitor has made.
Georgia's fields, though white with cvtton
yield rare wealth of golden grain,
Precious springs within her bosom THEN
captivity complain,
Where the wood birds sung in chorus tc
the murmur Of the pines,
Now the locomotive whistles on undeviat-
ing lines.
Where the gray moss swung UNDECIDED
mid the lonely cypress trees,
And the Whip-poor-wilPs slow measure
floated outward on the breeze,
Sounds the clink OF forge and hammer
sounds the industry of life,
Drowning with its bssy cIatter, reminis-
ences Of strife.
Cotton reixns supreme no longer, where
tho wheels OF progress move,
and with thousand eogent reasons force
fair Dixie from her groove,
Pointing out the wondrous future. due thii
highly favored cline,
Filling to overfnwing measure from !
Providence sublime.
Carolina sends as tribute her tobacco
wheat and corn,
While Virginia from her mountains give
her Minerals new born;
Tennessee and Mississippi yield their mar
bles TO the world;
Sugar from Louisiana goes where e'er tn
fag's unfurled
Old Kentucky sounds the bugIe for he
horses kind and fleet,
While Missouri, ever ready, whistles com
merce to her feet;
Texas, grand and broad and lonely, wit
her cattle and her grain,
Oasrs sw II, delightful journey to the fai
off western main.
Then the valley OF the ella, Paradise fc
man below,
Temps as Rasselas with wondrous idy
in New Mexico.
All the air is filled with frsgrane, breat
OF olive tree and palm,
While she pare magnoIia fingers like
holy, healing balm.
Florida, with groves of orange, lusciol
iiss, ambrosisl fruit,
Refuge offers to the weary. nervous fanci
to recruit;
Rich in vatery glades and inlets whel
huxe alligAtors hide,
Marvrls of redundant nature greet the E,
on every side.
Dixie's land so filed with promise, lac
one boom to might supreme
And without it earthly honora are butps
sage Of II dream.
Lat the sehoolhosse and the scholar, ero'
the slope Of every hill,
Let the Goddess, Education in each har
let work her viii,
, Then ambitious southern manhood will
rounded and complete,
Then the favored land of Dixie may vi
all the earth compete.
Labor, dignifed with learning, lifts
world by force Of might;
Ignorance Is Toe to progress; Dixie's wat
word must BE-. "LIGHr'
w. ALLoERDIcE, in Dixie