The Kansas PioneersDear Pioneers: God's noblest heritage To our fair state. I pen this ode to you, For you were here, when first I saw the light And then as now walked with the good and true, The greed for wealth that blights the best in all Who bend the ear to its deceptive tongue Has failed to lure you from your lowly home Where first you came, when you in years were young. About your home the robin and the wren The martin, noisy, blackbird, and the dove, Have nested each succeeding year in peace And sang to you their songs of joy and love; And when the virgin sod was laid in strips, By the slow oxen of the pioneers, The meadow lark at morn on joyous wing Burst forth in sweetness to delighted ears. To you Dear Friends who love fair Kansas now To you Dear Friends who loved fair Kansas then To you who toiled 'mid hardships and the drouth Toiled on until the rains came back again To you, who helped the needy and distressed And taught the way of love and duty here I pen this ode to you; God's heritage His greatest gift; the Kansas Pioneer. __Ed Blair |
Random Rhymes
Ed Blair
(Spring Hill, Kansas: New Era Publishing Co. 1939)
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