Country and river-side poems . his goblet without fear,—But shun the brothel, cards, and beer;For sober work and temprate playShall bring to earth a brighter Red Sea waves shall part away,And toil, redeemed, shall march in state,Invention make us rich and great,Til we be EMPERORS OF FATE. WAYNE, FAIR WAYNE. The folloiving ode was loritten for the Wayne CountyCentennial CeleljratiQn, held at Richmond, Indiana, Octo-ber 7, 1910. The accompanying quotation from the Rich-mond Palladium describes the occasion, and may serve asan introduction to the poem. The Palladium said: Wayne, Fair Wayn
Country and river-side poems . his goblet without fear,—But shun the brothel, cards, and beer;For sober work and temprate playShall bring to earth a brighter Red Sea waves shall part away,And toil, redeemed, shall march in state,Invention make us rich and great,Til we be EMPERORS OF FATE. WAYNE, FAIR WAYNE. The folloiving ode was loritten for the Wayne CountyCentennial CeleljratiQn, held at Richmond, Indiana, Octo-ber 7, 1910. The accompanying quotation from the Rich-mond Palladium describes the occasion, and may serve asan introduction to the poem. The Palladium said: Wayne, Fair Wayne, is the titleof the only song which has been composed in honor of thecounty, and it has hn^en adopted by the Fall Festival Asso-ciation as the county anthem. It will be sung by a chorusof school children while riding on a mammoth float duringthe parade on Centennial Day and at the exercises tvhichwill be held at the East Main Street Friends church lawnin the afternoon. The audience will be permitted to joinin the Where Mississippi pours his floodAlong a widening course. - Pagre Seventy-six. WAYNE. FAIR WAYNE ;-^ Fifty-SCVCU The author, now of Humboldt, loiva, is a native ofV/ayne county and was affiliated with its early school andreligious history. The words have heen set to music l)yProf. Henry Kampe and the chorus of school children whowill render the song are under his direction. They will heseated on a float forty feet long and twenty-four feet will he the largest float in the parade and will proh-ahly hold a hundred children. At Fifteenth and Main streetsit will he placed in front of the Friends church and usedas a stage. A century of years, Of human hopes and fears, And back we turn our facesAnd view the path that tracesA Mothers life whose gracesAbide the years nothing base degraded—Her name laud it in our song. O tis a noble nameForever dear to Fame, And twenty counties bear it;But yet, of all who share it,Do none so
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