The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-09
TENNESSEE AND TEXAS.

Texas,)
Avid Coujungere Dextras Ardebant
Written for The Post.
Aaneas and his comrades by tempests toss
ed.
At length the stormy seas mad almost
crossed.
When driven by winds to foreign shore.
They met their friends whom they thought
TO see no more.
Eager were they to grasp their comrades
hands.
Having drifted apart in many distant
lands.
They told with sorrow or hopeful glee.
OF dangers past and good things yet to
be.
The meeting bound their hearts with
stronger tie,
try.
The sturdy Trojans whose meeting now
relate.
Were brought together by seeming ad-
verse fate.
We Tenneeseeans were not eSiled by war
or fire.
But chose this state of our own desire.
Some came in boyhood, when Texas was
at strife.
For her to risk their fortunes and their
life.
Tennessee has always stood with heart
A sister true to Texas. our adopted land,
When Mexican despot sought with. cruel
greed.
To crush the brave people he could not
lead.
Tennessee gave her Houston and Crockett.
And many other heroes, brave and true,
The one gave his life nobly for freedoms
cause.
The other became the bulwark OF her civil
laws.
In later years. when Texas smiled in
Others came here. their worldly wealth 10
increase.
They left Tennessee with reluctant feet.
Hoping in Texas with better luck 10 meet.
Those who came have not been All idle
lhrong
But have helped to make Texas rich ana
strong.
Some with stalwart arms and industrious
Have changed her prairies into rich fields
OF grain.
Where the Indian and buffalo USED to
roam.
Has become some thrifty farmers happy
home
Some abandoned the ways OF greater bust
| ness ease.
| To battls against the ravages OF dsease-
| Some have helped TO steer Alright the ship
OF state.
| And achieved the honor due the good ana
great
| Some have invested their capital and skill.
| In the prosperous factory and euriching
mill.
| And thus with good judgment and means
combined,
| Have unlocked the wealth in raw products
confined.
| Others have sought with power granted
| from above.
| 10 reclaim sinners whom Jesus sought to
love.
| The men who were on Tennessee's soil
] Have made this State prosper by thelf
| sturdy Toll.
| So Texas NAV well honor old Tennessee.
| Whose sons have helped to make her rich
| and free
We Tennesseeans should be proud TO show
| That we value the welcome the Texans be-
| stow.
| Our native State. honored In her hundredth
year,
| Sends greetings to her children far and
| She bids them all welcome TO her royal
feast.
| Sighting no one, the greatest nor the
| least.
She bids them WISH tneiF olu hVHles uheo
more.
| And see the plenty that industry can re
store.
| She. too. has felt the pangs of a cruel war,
| And the weakening effects of military
law:
| But thirty years of peaceful thrift have
passed.
| And now she proudly shows what she has
| smassed,
| Let us visit once more our honored State,
| And learn to admire her prosperous fate.
| Let us seek to show her our filinl pride
| In the fair centennial that her people pro-
| vide.
We may greet the comrades OF former
| years,
| And Join them in their mirth and in their
| tears;
| Wen view the States growth from the
| earliest DAYS.
| And crown her success with unfading bays
| N. p. Hackett, ID.