Gem of the Prairies and Queen of the fair,
Brightest of Jewels that Autumn may bear;
Spread to the morning thy beauties serene –
Joyful the sunbeam shall sport in thy sheen.
Bland are the breezes that make thy perfume,
Soft are the blue skies that witness thy bloom:
Beauties unnumbered around thee are thrown,
Gem of the wild Prairies
Lovely and lone.
What are the splendors that India can boast,
Blooming perennial on Lanca’s bright coast?
What are the glories displayed on the bowers
Clothed with the verdure of tropical flowers?
Those but the Despot or minion behold,
Panting for glory, or thirsting for gold;
Those have not power to wake in the heart
Thrills of the rapture thy beaties impart.
Only the beings who flit thro’ the groves
Where the bright Peri of Paradise roves,
Find in their regions of beauty divine
Beauties or odors outrivaling thine.
Thine is a language which speaks to the soul,
Waking the feelings no art may control –
Speaking in beauty truly thine own,
Gem of the wild Prairie,
Lovely and lone.
Here the bright sunbeam is thrown from the skies,
On the soil where the altars of freemen arise,
And honor and virtue alike may be found,
Where the footstep of slavery imprints not the ground.
Then gladly I bid thee thou fairest of flowers,
To bloom round my cottage, and shine in my bowers;
Thy short life while passing shall gladden my own,
Gem of the wild Prairie,
Lovely and lone.
(Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell)
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