University of Oregon monthly., March 01, 1908, Image 27

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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON MONTHLY
found her now; the woman in th at den had on th at bracelet.”
He rose, took the .little box« from Ronald’sdaand, replaced it in
the drawer, reseated, himself and fixedhis.gaz.e on the fire.
Ronald picked up the paper, started but said nothing. | He had
found these headlines in the evening new s;
S “Miss M argaret Fields, daughter of J. F. Fields is at last found?
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’ ■ Lindley Welch, ’11/
The W estland.
Y o u ‘may ptate about your culture and its benefits, and then
You may laud your greatest cities full ¿'.educated m en;
But give to me 'the W estland, where the mountains ean be. seen, .
And the sunshine floods the prairies janft the grass is always green.
Give to me the waving forests/w here the pine’ tops always moan,
For therfe amid the mountains is the place that B S | home.
It is only a rude cottage,, midst the mountains and the streams,
-Not fitted out with; luxury (to cultured minds it seems);
But around it are the mountains, God’s sentinels are they
And the valleys filled with wheat fields,, and the hill sides sowed with
hay, I
And all your famous, ¿artists?-never'showed with,skill so rare.
The color of my wheat field when the autumn days are there/ »
Y ou may talk aboyt^bhr^dholars, filled'with aft the/dncfeht IcJre- i
’-Who have studied all the mysteries, 3peak Mhrefe^Wfri* tongues or
more;
But show me d fy o u r scholars anyone, with talents rare,
‘C a n ^ l l me why the birds fiy ’sibfith when fro < t'^ in the air;
O r tell me why the- m ountains or" the jvalleys'or the plains^
Seem 9 make man feel SO’ M ® and p u t'W e within fits brarin |
L ’E n ^ y t i
You may keep your crowded citie^f full of money'" and of din,.
You may laud yoUr greatest scholars» who ares men, and all men sin;;
But give to me the- W estland, where the pines are always green,.
W av o u t yonder on the borcler; 'where the han-d ph G od is seem
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