"Home-Land"

The mighty West looms vast before my sight,

Bright in the mystery of sun and sky,

mesa and plain, the desert and the sown,

the scar-faced mountains and the blinding snows,

the deathless blue and soaring angel clouds;

and on its farthest rim I see my soul

arise, broad-winged, and free, and beckon me.

Maynard Dixon, 1904