The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-09-24
From the homes Of Faith and Art.

From the heart of California.
Messages Of love we bring,
From the City Of the Sarlph
10 the City of the King.
To Saint Louis greetings. HOMAGE
Fervid as our own States breae+
From the Native Sons and Daughter,
Or our loyal Golden West"
Greetings quickeHed by the sD1ando~s
And the wonders we behold
Homage tender with the memorfeH
OF the hallowed days of old.
Stirring all our hearts to raptrrs
Thrills Of patriot pride and love
Lifting all our souls to grateful
Homage Of the God above.
Who thro' years of sternest trials
And thro' wastes Of tolls and fears
TO the latest Land of Promise
Led our noble pioneers,
Led our Fathers-we their childrer
Reap the harvests that they cast
With their hands of ttreless patieEc..
In the burrows of the Past.
On, the marvels far surprising
Widest dreams of human thought
10, from ocean unto ocean
What a century has wrought.
How the wilderness has blossomedt
And how far our banner flies,
1t is gladdening hearts that love it,
Under all earth's changing skies
from the sunrise, to the sunset.
From the fiery torrid gl1vs.
FROM the realms be1-opd
10 the wastes of Arctic SHOWS
1t is throbbing forth the welcome
OF our country's lips today.
MID the flags Of all the nations.
In this wonderful array; >
Where the islands of the ocean.
And earth's continents outpour.
boarded treasures of the ages.
From their caskets' gIitterfng s--r,
Precious spoils Of Time and Talent
Trophies of the mind and heart
the miracles of Nature,
And the prodigies of Art.
ct amid the ponlp and pageant
That tbs ours to share today.
Tender memories of our M4ther
Cluster ever round our way.
As she rises on our vision.
In this calm September glow.
AS when first she sprang to Statehood.
-Four and fifty years ago;
o Golden-crowned and royal vesturod
Queenly in her wealth and grace,
With the glory of the future
Shining in her radiant face,
California! California;.
Throned beside the Sunset Sea
All our hearts. like home-sick children.
Turn with loving thoughts to thee.
While the lips that love thee. pledge thee
In their warmest words Of praise.
While thy dome-erowned Mission sings u
Anthems Of thy early days;
While thy sun-tranced pictures mirror
Glimpses of thy bloom and grace.
And the Iabors Of thy children.
Seem as sunbeams from thy face:
While amid thy gracious Sisters.
North and South and West and East.
Joying in Columbias triumphs
Guests of honor at her feast
Yet our hearts are ever with thee.
For we are of thee a part
To thy absent sons and daughters
Flash message from thy heart.
Siienti-But we know thy wishes:
Love in deeds.-The hope, the crown,
And the glory of a nation
Is her children's pure renown.
More to her than lordly acres.
With their harvests' golden stores.
Purple grapes. or orchard treasures.
Forest wealth, or glistenlng ores
More than Music. Art. Song. Science.
More than Labor's 'proudest boast,
More than argosies of commerce,
More than serried marital host.
For the nations veal is builded
Of the living stones of Home.
If the walls and pillars crumble.
Of our country lives, or dies.
Fathers. mothers, sons and daughters
Closer bind Loves sacred ties.
In her children's lives. the greatness
Of our countTy's lives. or dies.
Higher, higher, lift the standard
OF the pure. the true. the just:
ClasDing to our hearts the blazon
OF our Fathers: God our Trust"