Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-09-26
BISMARCK, THE CAPITAL CITY,

Fair city of the boundless western plains Is : :
Whose VIII steeples rise amid the yerdant bowers {.
That fringe the great Missouri's stream, gem
Implanted in field of design
And graved with rich traditions of the past. -
4 son Of thine today, his heart o'erhown
With pride and wonder, pucks the golden strings
OF sweet Polymnias harp, to draw from them
song of glory in the upward sweep
OF Times great pendulum of gratitude
For noble epochs whose romantic glow
Oerspreads a mantle for the gifts
That we now have and hold, of trusting faith !.
In what glorious future yet shall bring.
Heroic is your past, like to page
From old Valhala; these rolling plains
The red man of the prairie joyed to roam
When council chase battle called him forth
10 exercise his primal powers; these hlls~
His temples were, long ere the thundrous dawn
OF that new era when the white man came
To rear his affairs to nobler God
Rich is your store of legend and sublime
The native grandeur of your circlng hills
That stand as barriers to yon giant stream
And as guardian Gordon round your homes.
When is your beauty perfect-some would say
With song and laughter on her gar'lous tongue
Her fair soft tresses filed with crocus blooms;
Yet Others choose the Summer when she stands
In fullbown beauty at her marriage feast,
When from her lovely, brown, voluptuous arms
Are scattered all the gifts of loves desire.
Would you not linger in her mellow days
When from the hill and vale, the wood and plain
Are waited sweet 7,, perfumes Of full fraition'
At last old Winter comes his hoary locks
Adorned with boreal jewels. in his hand
The cold white blanket for his couch Of Dreams
LIS t0en the pOpul0ce their narVestS done
And garnered from the fields, by fresides meet
In friendly conclave, to renew their faith
Each in the other and their common God.
Each season has its uses and its joys
That enter in the ever growing sum
OF our existence. and the man who holds
This simple key to natures secret page
VIII find fe's richest trea sures mid these scenes.
Great Capital City of a sovereign state
Your sacred duty is to hold In trust
It's written archives on your charming slopes
The legislative hall uprears its dome,
Where patriots chosen by the people meet
In earnest labor for the common veal
Your Exposition Hall stands complete,
And from the east and west, the north and south
The people of a commonw ealth have come
To pour their treasures at it's open doors.
These gifts are In your keeping: be resolved
To nobly do your part in showing forth NJ.
These native harvests to the waiting throng
That will claim welcome at your gates
But stay. lest you forget-these golden fruits
BY Heavn's luster must be sanctifed;
The Hand that led you up primeval sleeps
Must still your guidance be; your favored sons
Should not disdain to turn their busy hands
And grateful hearts to patriotic needs
Nor yet forget to keep their vestments clean
From selfish motives bigotry and sham.
Great city. proud of what you are,
OF what you have been and will yet become;
And like glorious sunrise on the plains,
So filed with promise of perfect day
Your future looms with mornings opal beams
CARL MEL