The Harrison times., 1901-02-09
NORTH ARKANSAS.
lFor the TIMES. ]

II TFor the TIMEs.l
II Nature has made you a shrine of all beauty
And fashioned you too,-by her own love of righ
Aud for near half ceutury--your coverts have
AZ charrned me
n And touched my horizon with bounds of de
hight
With pride in each haunt we've lived much
together
And the t,nts on your sunset, the haze youl
| hills,
The songs of your minst1els and spray of your
blossoms
Have "lessened Lite stress" and are soothing G
me still.
I've seen your dear forests writhe " ith the TEN
| pest
Despite your defence from center to peak;
| And borne midst the crashing and pea1ing of
| thunders
I've heard the loud tone of the winds angry
| shrek;
As 1t sprans like thing possessed of a demon
And reveled in wreckage to fling at your feet,
| Till your great bosom heaved to the pain of its
scourgiug
| In its Imprisoned speed, and passions fierce
| beat.
also have found in the heart of your valleys
stiffness that fell with the calm waning day.
As soothing and sweet, the heart Of the
dreamer
As the semblance of pleasures that fade not
away
The grape scented viue,-the glow of the even
ing
The stir of the winds-lIke the "brooding of
peace
All noiselessly fell on the shrine of your wood
sand
Aud Nature was thrilled with the Joy of re-
( lease
And oft have climbed your SUBMITS majestic,
Bedecked in their vesture of scarlet and gold
And marveled at hues-no artist could rival
That threaded each leafet with beauty untold,
Then the crack of the rifle and song OF the hun
(Who followed each trail, up your steep noun
tain side,)
Awakened the echoes-that flooded your passes
With challenge defy1ng-your songsters,-your
pride.
And oft from your heights I've marked your
wide landscape
That silently lay like untroubled main"
With its halo of brightness caught from the
seasons
Prophetic of progression valley and plain
And down the bright vista, then mark ed by its
strangeness
The slow creaking wagons white canyas was
seen
That bore meath its cover-the home seeking
builder
In lonely procession, toward riches unseen.
Again have I loved the streams of your noun
That down their steep channels-oft frolicked
along.
And Ive caught every accent, from ripple or
murmur,
To the great swell of freedom-the true soul of
song,
And when from draught of your health Civ
ing nectar
I've smothered my face-in your grasses-of
green,
The echoes of voices-in streamIet seemed
grooming
Like lullabies broken-with kisses between
But dearer by far than the streams of your
mountains
And grander again than your SUBMITS proud
height
Is the calm sturdy life that's pulsed like an ar
terry
Through the toll of your past, and the forces of
might
Your Pioneers strove, and your woods fairly
blossomed
Your hOme-altarS crowned the work OF their
hands,
While the fare of your fields and fruit of your
vineyards
.zTe-e- sSot~rs'e- bsst syns-doa-for siiliup her
lands.
The primedal hardihood, born with a daring
A Spartan might covet, twice essed like
fate
Your stalwarts your brave the sons of your
border
To peril their lives for their own menaced state;
At the beat of the drum, and blast of the bug1e,
In the heart of your heroes spirit awoke
That leaped to the fay ere the steel of its foe
Swung out like fame in Battles first
smoke"
Now the echoes of war-have ceased or grown
fainter
And the listening heart of the great world to-
day
Has marked your career and would bring you
its p1audit
And pay its devoirs-by coming to stay
And share the rich gifts with which you are
Through means-that will crimson the flush of
your skies
And open the way to secrets long guarded
Through the travail of nature her groans and
her cries"
But the era that's dawning-this Century
morning
And wake ming your gorges from near and from
far
Will ring like herald Till echoes respon-
Pervade every recess wrsit'Aoe,hing to mar
The mystic communion tina: Progress and Ma
ture
Will WELD force in leavening the whole.
In SOLVING the problem, for nobler conditions
And make for your children--their Eden their
Coal.
o. Land of the Ozarks your children, your
Look out for your Triumph, through the vista
of years,
VIXEN your merited Fame has reached its full
fulment
peers
darkness"
Will shame every doubt of your fabulous store
And rule the great Commerce now restlessly
+. waiting
To bring the Worlds tribute to lay at your
door
Harrison. Ark, January 9th, 1901.
Hotel Arrivals
CONNERLY.-R. F. Dirst, Kansas