| Show SANPETE MY HOME Lyndon Graham Fairview Utah Non-Professional Division Second Place Poetry For the splendors Or wherever chance m always For the of exotic proud place to cities to roam chose Sanpete call home my Your history was etched in the wagon ruts Of the prairies In cold so Tong ago Where the blood showed red in the tracks the untrodden that were made snow When noble men from family and friends And from the wicked were forced to flee Their humble prayers were answered As God saved this place for these They laid their hearts on Their all they freely gave When many found the their resting InTonely unmarked grave My treasured home God 1ike held you you weregem in altar place bought his for price hand To await the coming of righteous men To possess this choicest land Who came not as seekers of silver Or the lure of worldly fame or gold But to buildtemple and worship God And to call on His holy name From the heights of your lofty mountains gaze on your valleys so fair And freely partake and drink to my fill 0f your unpolluted air Oh daughters and sons of those stalwart men Hold on to the old homestead Dontrade your birthright to unworthy men And accept their gold instead From the time of my birth to this present My love for you has grown Andthank my God thatchose Sanpete For the place to call my home i3 day |
