Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-16

NptptctAi Mituui tte'"s ~ y" 800
with a hearty welcome, not az one OF
Those VIC fought you TO the bitter end,
and
Now come fawning to thy feet and sws.E
thslr
Love undyipg; Swear they always hoped TO
See thy smiling face adorn this Palace
Which has honored been 90 long 10
Santa Fe,
aau ~.'s- !. --s- WIN
All It's wealth Of "reminiscences
Hear my
Song Of welcome for a moment and BIO
sure an honest wish for thy success goes
With this crude e~ffusion from the heart OF
one who lives the sunllt land, the chosen
Lend Of Mcntezuma.
What q chance Is
| Thine to do q lasting favor to this
Boss.cursed, prisst-rIdden land OF ours,
and by
A course directed clear Of all the dark
And shady elements within our midst,
Ito whom, thank God, you " no %favors)
do
| Full honor to the manhood which ] know
Is In thee, which stoops not TO traffic with
The cursed gang which run the old
machine.
The ones who fought thee most will gladly
spread
Their mantles now and carpet every plank
Thy feet must travel II thou wilt but let
| Them thus subserve thee, but, be sure that
The time is near It's close, aud thou must
leave
| The oaken chair, no matter how thy course
May honor It, they all will strive to give
A parting kick and lusty boost to start
Thee down the hill OF dark oblivion.
Wealth have we for those who would at
tain It,.
Health for those whose pallid faces hunger
For a taste of mountain air, and crave the
Golden sunshine which, with jewels, tips the
Mo untain peaks and battles the valleys ut
their
| Feet with floods of liquid gold and amber
| Cheering our beloved land-New Mexico.
| oh, take thy Inspiration from the sun,
| Which cheers us all, and, standing on the
peak
Where thou art placed and may retain
thyself.
| Disdain to beckon to the foul and mud
despatched host. whose company you ne'er
Can have and proudly hold thy present
place
OF honor. but whose bad companionship
Can only by thy lot by thy descent.
Adown the Shiny canyon where they love
To revel and would feign seduce from thee
Thy manhood, which our hope is and our
trust.
Be true, and not a fairer glow shall tint
The cheek Of sun-kissed peaches in the vale
or old Mesiila tban shall grace thy brow
And b~eautify thy memory, u tbou
Wilt only faithful prove and lead rs on
To that success we merit. Fill no head
Shall pose so proudly, none such garlands
As this of our own brunette bella, the
fond
Aud loving daughter of our Uncle Sam,
New Mexico, God bless heri
Sparkles bright
The silv'ry ribbon of the Rio Grande
Which stretches from the clad noun
tains of
The North. and bears our kindest wishes
The belle upon whose breast the lone star
shines.
Oh! bear in mind. the river which brings
wealth
To that fair vale, where senoritas, dark
Eyed maicens, pluck the purple clusters
from
The vineyards, e~mblematic scenes OF that
Rich stream OF silver, which our mines
shall yield,
When Mammon loses grip upon the soul
OF labor, and bis manacles of gold
Are broken. Be thou true to us. Desert
Us not, In this our day Of struggle for
Our rights. Our country needs the silver
stream,
Our boundless fields of carbon fain would
coax
now, tnat stream Wnlcn IIetsagain
would give
To trade, and make her pulses bound once
more
Within her arteries; as doth the Mora.
The sIlv'ry orb, brings inspiration to
The dropping heart, and to the tongue
bring words
of sweetness, which revive the fainting
soul.
and honour thy power Is
TO weave in wrcaths about that name,
which in
The past has been bedecked with both.
The friend,
Who pens these lines will ask no favors
at
Thy hand, but. this, that thou wilt favor
all,
BY keeping clean thy hands. thy heart,
and day
~ day, exert thy noblest energies
the comm on good, the building
up L
4 fair New Mexico. H. w. L.
ANITA FEE, N. NJ, June 18th. 1897.
A Coming Marriage.
On the 9th inst Mias Marou.r;t. D.