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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. Where <hadseale brush and saline Were scattered here and there, crust Great clouds of saleratus dust Dili permeate the air! Where cottonwood and bitter sage Could only stunted srow! Where wolverines and Some fifty years ago. lions raged Great ugly crickets swarmed the glen From all the hills and knolls! Devouring insects! they again Devoured by the gulls; The horse-head locust from the sand Hatched out in trillions! >h! It was a desolated land i Some fifty j ears ago! The Indian ate the c«t»fcet dried With snake and rabbit stew, And thistle root and hoppers fried Made up his rude menu; The howling wolf in gaunt distress Went howling to and fro Athwart the howling wilderness, < >f fifty years ago. Mount Nebo And rose from out the dared the dizzy sky, dell As proud as Popocataptel Or towering Sinai; Although this King was nameless then His crown was capped with snow; He frowned upon red savage men Some fifty years ago! Would saline desert yield to man? Could drought release its hold? Could labor conquer such a band Producing wheaten gold? Would hope reward for toil and tears? Appearance answered, "No!" Undaunted were the Pioneers Of fifty years ago! Their names engraved by iron pen Adorn historic page. The mem'ry of those dauntless men Shall span from age to age! they approached a desert vast Where sterile winds did blow, And how subdued the barren waste Of fifty years ago! How 559 |
