| Show Words by Mrs G. G McClurg of or Colorado Music J h by J. J J. J McClellan of ur Utah Ode To Irrigation c 0 i J t Land Laud 0 O Desert Detert Land The land of the smiting sun glare deep blue of or the star pierced night Of rock piled hei heights and chasms I fraught Awe to the diz InS sight Where here the shadow ev ever l' l chases the light of the time blinding duy 11 With ith purple and pink and crimson j Opalescent and far Car away The candlesticks s of the time cactus flame torches flame torches lucre hum uphold Sunflower disks and spread mustard fields of the cloth of gOl gold J The polished cups of amole arc are glided girded with wilh spears of thorn When hen tho the wind desert-wind arises and they fade as us the they were born The rainbow colored spaces wan and withered In a breath Bones Dones of or man and beast He lie to together ether A a Under mock mirage of death Life Lite of sky sly and sand awaking to prey pray When llOn all aU Is done dune Lund of the tho de desolate people burn born OIn of Sirocco and suno sun sun sun- O 0 Desert Land 0 O Desert Land MARCH L OP Or Tim H. C RACES S The l luc Pueblo lo i iTo To the tho Hol Holder er of the tic Trails TrafIs of Life 1 The Pueblos Pueblo's prayers ascend lIe Ho furrows earth with his stone chipped knife Where the frowning canons bend t AntI And tho the foaming lino of oC the tho mountain stream He may turn an and store at will wIli j. j L W hon hen Serpents oC ot Life e ln Ila flash ii h his cis dt di i across s J CaT m I And plumes r pum r i na wave Ol l the hill hill hII To waft to tel tho the pf the time skies Ills his thanks to Those Above c J l. l i 1 For the rains that the Sumner Summer I Wing down to the fields thc they love Jo Sun wind clouds rain and the thc fruitful corn He lie paints on his fashioned clay In watered meads were ere proud cities born born born- All 11 swept sand ruins today Tine The waste reclaims the rills by toil toll and patience o won toot Land of the wise peaceful people Lon Long passed to their home in the sun As stars oer o'er pass tho the Hel Holds s of sli sky The red men swarm oer o'er plain J The hunter hounds the bison's flanks s The warrior heaps his slain f Dance chase ensanguined warpath their evil Employ days dars I The fhe Good Spirit it smiles down the tho dark dalI dark wrath Yields them tho the gift girt of maize maixe The golden olden corn conI hides the time crimsoned stains peace harvests arc are begun cun Guerdon of wilderness people nourished by shower hower and aud sun PIONEERS To the thc throbbing heart t of the fervent earth wend the men of latter day To ro the trackless buttes and tho the desert dearth of the mesas far tar awa away array Champion leader father and eyed clear seer Marched first in the pilgrims pilgrims' van an Winged youth strong manhood age ae silver SOlO sere Swept the tho sunsets sunset's remotest span Bearing treasured seed grain of or high I t I Leaving lingering lag laggards that thai yearn carn B By tho the dead salt sea In ht treacherous guise ulse Living streams gushed from their urn Forth from the heart of or time the hoary rock The prophet smote mole s with his ro rod From Fron the waste where sons of or Edom mock The They look to Israels Israel's God Fair Canaan smiles In Neath PI Pisgah gah heights now won on I Land of the hie long promised people people people- s' s Green fields honey bees and gol gold sun TilE THE I IRRIGATED CLU REGION O 0 Glorious Land LantI 0 O The Time lan land of homes t for r tho the homeless of shepherded flocks and herds Tho The land laud where the thc walled green thickets are arc choral with songs of birds Where here over O the tho ancient furrows silver streamlets are arc redrawn Where slopes once arid Ho lie teeming with wealth of or the time thelno vine vino and corn The land of sunny sua spaces the tho land of or leaf leaf glades Of or the faith that sues in the time de desert ert the time promise of or the Ute verdant blades Where here fruits purple crimson and golden roll 1011 forth from Plenty's horn Where here the tine souls of noble nobe fealty of diviner r mood are arc born Where herc In glimmering heights of future futuro gleam fair Call regenerate years cars Head Read In chrystal chrism of water tho the transparent globe of oC se seers r rIn In th tho Uie e garden grows the time Tree of or Life Lif Where Eden's Edens rivers run Land LantI of the time well loved people NUrtured by water and sun Hun GLORIOUS GLORIOUS' X Ll LAND 6 0 Glorious Giu Glorious ious Landh J Land d 0 O Glorious Land I Creator Iii Ii the morn when starr starry worlds were born to to- Theo Theol was Day was divorced from night l Life teemed in und and height Joined in wavu and light it m In TrinH Trinity I From grim rent Assyrian r world Where hero Egypt rose t 1 i From the Hood flood free treo e JIZ v vj j 1 From Irom Mexico's blue lake v Where the proud prou Incas 1 Tho The deserts desert's thirst they make mako The Tho Post for Thee From Prom the clear waterways A thousand songs song of praise Arise riso to Thee tho the hearted green wood Thine silver crested flood Hood f Fields lJ by the spun kiss un-kl un un wooed t I t Time The Futures Future's sweet stern eyes Look out in glad surprise surprise- I On lands land s to be bc y Where the worlds world's three It ItI In one I Forest orest and stream and sun I Have wrought a realm well won Future for Thee Glorious Land Glorious Laud Land I II I M I |
