BEAUTIFUL COLORADO
Colorado! Oh, what a glorious country!
Colorado! Could Nature more beautious be?
Colorado! See! Laughing sky is deep violet blue,
And rolling prairie is emerald hue,
While mountain leaps up from the foot-hill below,
Great billow on billow of lily-white snow.
Oh, look away to the south!
There yawns a canon’s great mouth,—
While out of the hazy distance beyond
Behold Pike’s proud peak, so mighty and grand!
Then lifting her snowy-white head high up in the West,
Like a fond mother o’er offspring asleep on her breast,
Madame Lincoln looks down on many a baby-peak’s crest.
And joyous ever, rippling, murmuring near,
With music most sweet to the ear,
We catch the glad, sparkling beam
Of our Platte River—muse-haunted stream.