. Reminiscences of frontier life . — Who, laid from sea to sea, those rails of steel. Ando^er it sent the *Uron horse aiuheel;— Who, stretched electric m)ires around the Tvorld, And on strange seas those daring sails unfurled;— Who, founded schools Tvhere once roamed lion and bearf And builded homes for the brave and the fair. Empire builders, your <Tvork is nearly done;— Pioneers in thought, yours, has just begun, Inbentions v)ill increase human povjers. Future arts vfill beautify all flov)ers. Future muses Tvill sing us STveeter songs. Fair justice ivill right many present vjrongs. But if
. Reminiscences of frontier life . — Who, laid from sea to sea, those rails of steel. Ando^er it sent the *Uron horse aiuheel;— Who, stretched electric m)ires around the Tvorld, And on strange seas those daring sails unfurled;— Who, founded schools Tvhere once roamed lion and bearf And builded homes for the brave and the fair. Empire builders, your <Tvork is nearly done;— Pioneers in thought, yours, has just begun, Inbentions v)ill increase human povjers. Future arts vfill beautify all flov)ers. Future muses Tvill sing us STveeter songs. Fair justice ivill right many present vjrongs. But if you Tvould broaden the manly scope. Look West, for theres the brightest star of hope, —Ediuard C, Morse, Note.—The foregoing poem was inscribed by the author, and prettily illus-trated, on a piece of Alaska cedar; the whole inscription being burned into thewood with the red-hot point of a metal tool. It was done at the Sea-levelMine, near Ketchakan, Alaska, and sent to me at Portland as a Christmasgift, 1903. iD 0. If. ?>^ . « • o- *:
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