Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-09-29

skies.
Great mountain chains whose submits pierce
tho clouds,
Bristling with pines and oarpeted with
Their bold peaks over wrapped in snowy
shrouds,
On which, the sunshine falls in mellow
showers;
Bright streams Of crystal purity, which flow
With rippling melody through canons deep,
And with their tinkling music, soft and low,
At evontime lull nature into sleep.
Broad plains Of grassy lovliness, Ger which
Sleck-coated colts roam and feed at will,
While natures brightest floral gems enrich
The ever verdant breast Of plain and hill.
Broad streams whose smiling faces catch the
bright
And silvery sunshine as it downward drifts.
And laughs It back unto the God Of light
In cleaning thankfulness of all His gifts.
Deep in the mouBtains' rock-cnvironed sides,
Placed there by hand Divine whom earth was
young,
An unknown wealth Of precious metal hides,
Waiting the cleaning pick by miner swung,
Lies in its virgin purity and waits
OTho dawninF of the not far distant day,
when mans great energy shall Opo the gates
And fill the universe with its display.
Slowly but surely, with unceasing tread,
The march of progress seeks that sunny
land
By pioneers of dauntless spirit led,
The gathering hosts sweep in on overY hand.
From out the sleep of centuries agone,
The widespread west is rousod to active
life,
And stands proud and rosplendant in tho
dawn
OF peace which crowns tho close of savage
strife.
Her sunny skies ne'er wore n brighter face
Than that which smiles a welcome unite
those
Who meath them seek for an abiding place,
Where 10Y breath of winter mover blows.
Her breezes never kissed with balmier touch
The checks Of pilgrims from the sultry east,
Who from tho stern, impoverishing clutch
OF overcrowded states have been released.
New Mexico, the brightest. fairest gem
That ever cast a radiance from the crest
Ofnatures proudest, lovllcst dlsdem,
Which rests upon the bold brow of tho West
Shines in that crown as radiant guiding star,
AS beacon light from natures mountain
domes;
And leads the cream OF earth from lands afar,
To sweet prosperity in peaceful homes.
o, fair land. bathed in cver-changing tints,
Which naught but hand of heaven can
create,
Well wort thou christoned by our honorcd
Prince
With that bright name of names, THE sun
shine State"
a State which hand of storm king never
smites,
Beyond the reach Of winters outstrotohet
arm,
Aland of cloudless days and starllt nights,
Where breezes soft the slumbering senses
charm.
Thy children love thee with love as deep
As ever welled from happy grateful breasts
They love the broad and grassy wales which
sleep
In emerald beauty meath thy towering
crests.
They love thy brlsht-winged songbirds. whose
sweet notes
Arise in songs of thankfulness at morn,
And speed in liquid music from their throatl
Der billowy plains ana hills by canons torn
They love the breath of health thy soft wlndl
bear
To bring the flush Of life to faded cheeks,
Which drives disease back to Its grusome lair
Aud words Of hope TO every suffeeer speaks
They love thy old traditions, handed down
Through lapse Of years from ancient Aztec
days,
When swafthy chieftains struggled for thu
crown
Which now meath freedoms feet in frag
ments lays.
Thy future, mind OF man can never trace;
Its rising sun is dazzling to the eye.
On flashing wings thou'rt soaring to plae
Upon the citadel Of henor high.
Soon viii thy plains and lofty mountains teen
with mon whose tireless hands will shap
thy fate,
And on the roster of the earth supreme
Engrave thy honored name, OF sunShin
State.