. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . .\s SHOWN IN 1896, Enterprise, Kansas. (54) QUIVERA—KANSAS. 1542-1892. In that half-forgotteii era,With the avarice of old,Seelcing cities he was toldHad been paved with yellow gold, In the kingdom of Quivera — Came the restless CoronadoTo the open Kansas plain,With his knights from sunny Spain;In an effort that, though vain. Thrilled with bol
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . .\s SHOWN IN 1896, Enterprise, Kansas. (54) QUIVERA—KANSAS. 1542-1892. In that half-forgotteii era,With the avarice of old,Seelcing cities he was toldHad been paved with yellow gold, In the kingdom of Quivera — Came the restless CoronadoTo the open Kansas plain,With his knights from sunny Spain;In an effort that, though vain. Thrilled with boldness and bravado. League by league, in aimless scarcely where or they uplands drear and dry,?That an unprotected sky Had for centuries been parching. But their expectations, eager. Found, instead of fruitful streams and shifting the buffalo in bands Roamed oer deserts dry and meager. Back to scenes more trite, yet tragic. Marched the knights with armourd steedsNot for them the quiet deeds ;Not for them to sow the seeds From which empires grow like magic. BY HON. EUGENE F. Never land so hunger-stricken Could a Latin race re-mold; They could conquer heat or cold — Die for glory or for gold —But not make a desert quicken. Thus Quivera was forsaken ; And the world forgot the placeThrough the lapse of time and the blue-eyed Saxon race Came and bade the desert waken. And it bade the climate vary;And awaiting no replyFrom tlie elements on high,It with plows besieged the sky — Vexed the heavens with the prairie. Then the vitreous sky relented, And the unacquainted rain Fell upon the thirsty plain, Whence had gone the knights of Spain,Disappointed, discontented. Sturdy are the Saxon they move along in line ;Bright the rolling-cutters up the States incline. As an army storms a glacis. (55) Into loam the sand is melted, And the bliie-gvass takes the loam,Round about the piaiiie home
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