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Happy days; carolings of Colorado, etc.

Chapter 41: AT DENVER
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A collection of lyrical poems and brief prose sketches that celebrate Colorado's natural scenery and frontier memories. The verses praise mountain and prairie landscapes, clear skies, rivers and woodlands, and combine joyful exhortation, pastoral reverie, and rustic reminiscence of early regional life. Imagery of angling, hunting, camping, and seasonal pleasures recurs alongside reflections on gladness, love, and simple living. Short prose pieces offer travel-minded vignettes of lakes and mountain canyons, together creating an overall tone of affectionate local portraiture and unpretentious lyricism.

AT DENVER

At Denver, at sunny Denver town;
At Denver, where the snowy hills look down;
At Denver, where the ladies never frown;
At Denver,—at classic Denver town.
At Denver, at jolly Denver town.
At Denver,—in the autumn of the year,—
At Denver, when the merry crowds assemble, and King Carnival draws near.
At Denver,—at festive Denver town.
At Denver,—-at social Denver town,—
At Denver, there “the portly parson” smiles and winks,
At Denver,—there the naughty boys take their drinks
And the lithesome lassies dance “high jinks,”
At Denver—at gay, athletic, youthful Denver town.
At Denver—if you ever go to Denver town
You will surely see the circus and the clown.
You will hear them sweetly rhyme
Of the pleasures of their clime
And they’ll, pretty tolerably nearly, “show you a jolly good time”
At Denver—if you only go to Denver town.