Delightful charms in gorgeous brilliant lure!

Our youth do struggle on ambition's tour.

They meet life's challenge with true heart and hand.

Forgotten trails are marked with scar and wand;

A blasted rock and broken twigs assure

The traveler that others fought the moor,

And sailed the stormy breakers, crossed the sand

To build the city on a granite slab.

They tamed the wilderness, a sturdy clan!

Retracing paths recall the glory made,

Lays bare the secrets of the field and lab.

Such tours give hope for future life and plan.

Brave men have set the torch with ax and spade.

MEET THE CHALLENGE

The coddled youth, like greenhouse plant

Will wilt and die in desert sand,

Can never meet the storms of life,

Untried and mild and soft his hands.

He walks within the favored nooks,

Protected there much more than those,

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