PICTURESQUE 
 MONTANA 
 
 DAVIES POEMS 
 
 BY 
 
 LAURA VICTORIA DAVIES 
 
 1917 Edition 
 
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Copyright 1911 
 
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 Laura Victoria Davies 
 
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 COPYRIGHT, 1917 
 
 BY 
 
 LAURA VICTORIA DAVIES 
 
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JUST TO SEE YOU 
 
 THIS CHRISTMAS TIME. 
 
 1916 
 
 Down in my heart 
 I love you so, 
 You never yet 
 Have known me. 
 Down in my heart, 
 I'd never part. 
 If I could linger 
 Near thee. 
 
 Down in my heart, 
 I'd love to be 
 Where I could 
 See you smiling; 
 Where I could hear 
 Your words of cheer, 
 Your own ills 
 Ne'er regarding 
 
 Down in my heart. 
 Were I to choose. 
 Should fate my 
 
 Wishes crown me; 
 I 'd never part 
 With some I know. 
 For truest worth 
 
 I love thee. 
 
PICTURESQUE MONTANA. 
 
 Part I. 
 
 Gorgeous old mountains 
 Attired in blues, 
 In tints or shades 
 Of all delicate hues; 
 Physical giants with 
 Treasures galore, 
 Her thrifty inhabitants 
 Love and adore. 
 
 Frolicking streamlets 
 Go carolling by — , 
 Birds singing vdldly, 
 Flowers blooming nigh, 
 Larks sing tlieir chorus, 
 While in tune to their lay 
 Dance o're the meadows 
 Tlie robin and jay. 
 
 Tasseled with boulders 
 And rock fringes gay; 
 Glistening of crystals 
 Adorn the highway. 
 Amethyst, sparr and 
 Sapphires twinkle. 
 Ijambs gambol round 
 Just to hear their bells tinkle. 
 
 Gorges and trails, 
 Where the coyote wails. 
 Drowsily,— yawning in 
 Beauty surround you; 
 And tiie delicate vines 
 'Neath the lofty pines, 
 Wave and nod, softly 
 Whispering about you. 
 
Light clouds, fantastically 
 
 Skip o'er your snows, 
 
 While cherubim visions 
 
 Are caught as they go. 
 
 Heaven touches earth, and 
 
 Our thoughts rise with thee, 
 
 Thinking of days 
 
 That are ours to be. 
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 Reverently lifting 
 Your heads so high ; 
 Sweet summer breezes 
 All sing — passing by; 
 Weird, ancient Buttes, 
 Tiger, Black and Old Baldy, 
 Enraptured our praise 
 Of your lofty society. 
 
 Gracing with beauty 
 Montana's horizon, 
 Serenely enticing her 
 Landscape and wealth; 
 Bequeathing a soul filled, 
 E'en infinite measure. 
 To searchers in quest, of 
 Earth's beauty or treasure. 
 
 Testify still — from 
 The dawn of creation, 
 Dignified, — Silently, 
 Ever — Adore — 
 Firmly stand witness, 
 In praise to the author. 
 Secrets — Unfolding 
 Eternal in thee. 
 
 Snowflakes in purity. 
 Kissing your crest; 
 Mist clouds so tenderly 
 Cling to your breast; 
 Summer resort of the 
 Owl, bee and blossom; 
 Progs and the trout, 
 Croaking homage to tliee. 
 
Sunset and dawn, 
 Blithe to look upon, 
 To her peaks winkling — 
 Secrets betraying; while 
 Down their sides leaping, 
 Go zephyrs, in glee, for 
 A dance with the ferns, 
 O'er the meadows. 
 
 High o'er canopies sought, 
 By the maiden and swain, 
 AVell garnished and swept, 
 By the winds and the rain.^ 
 There fawns, in quaint antics, 
 And brilliant array; 
 Weird Aurora Borealis — 
 O'er Athena's highw^ays. 
 
 Sun, stars and moon, in 
 Their golden rays glowing; 
 Rainbow^ of hope and 
 The Halo, your crown ; 
 Harmony blending 
 From azAire to azure; 
 Laughing springs treble 
 Refreshing delight. 
 
 Towering aloof 
 In Majestic array, 
 With balmy sweet fragrance 
 Blithe Spring's gift of May. 
 Profound admiration 
 On thee all bestowing 
 To all ages, picturesque. 
 Gloomy and grand. 
 
PICTURESQUE MONTANA. 
 
 Part II. 
 
 Flow on old Missouri, 
 
 111 the height of your pride, 
 
 111 joy, betimes leaping 
 
 Your mountain side, 
 
 While Black Eagle, Rainbow 
 
 And Big Falls together 
 
 Their sprays dash hilarious 
 
 In merriment, with each other. 
 
 In party gowns gay, 
 On your banks, all the way. 
 Responding in pantomimea 
 Trees, bend and sway, and 
 The Indian and cayuse 
 As true as of old, — 
 Home wend over trails, 
 In a sunset of gold. 
 
 All feathered and beaded 
 With ornaments 'round, 
 As loud in their praise 
 As in bright colors wound, 
 Ere graced by these pioneers 
 Your eddies be found 
 While sweet peace and 
 Plenty forever abound. 
 
 And your jewels adorn 
 Smiling young maidens gay 
 Found by pedestrians 
 Perchance by the way, 
 Like hues of thy sunset 
 Enchanted, who stay, 
 Nor aught could ere challenge 
 Nor drive them away. 
 
PICTURESQUE MONTANA. 
 
 Part III. 
 
 Bold GLACIER PARK grandeur 
 All words but deride: 
 Where mystical nooks 
 Near-by lake beauties hide. 
 
 MacDonald and Flathead 
 Romancing together, 
 In serenade sheen 
 To her ideal weather. 
 
 There lie peaceful valleys 
 Inviting to rest, the 
 Glacier all sparkling 
 Adorned in her best. 
 
 Impenetrable forests 
 And Gun-sight pass 
 And Avalanch Basin 
 All unsurpassed. 
 
 Where turbulent rivers 
 Through deep chasms cliime 
 White cities' attractions 
 Grotesque and sublime. 
 
 Loom on in thy grandeur 
 Oh! mountain and river; 
 Firm patriots to shelter, 
 And WELCOME and REST. 
 
 Well won unfeigned pride: 
 O'er this world far and wide. 
 Unexcelled : — thy rare 
 Beauties of Nature. 
 
THE EMIGRANT 
 Dedicated to Rev. Robert Forbes, D. D. 
 
 From bleak bluehazed Alaska, 
 To Cuba's fruit and palm, 
 From New York harbor landing, 
 And Golden Gate they come. 
 By millions from all Nations, 
 In every color blent, 
 In need of God's Salvation, 
 Here by His grace are sent. 
 
 We can not dare neglect them. 
 Nor pass them heedless by. 
 When Christ, His life gave for them, 
 Wliile ransomed You and I. 
 Redeemed of our own Nation, 
 Proclaim the gospel call — 
 Resound ye hills and valleys, 
 His love and peace to all. 
 
 Blow happy gentle breezes, 
 
 Wave floral tributes fair. 
 
 The praise of thy Creator 
 
 Upon our balmy air — , 
 
 O'er mountains plains and river. 
 
 From sea to sea waft on. 
 
 Sing sweet wild birds and nature, 
 
 God's gift of Christ to all. 
 
 We'll join in heart to greet them, 
 Where e'er these souls may come, 
 And God's eternal homage 
 Here ever more be sung. 
 Until they join the chorus. 
 Enraptured in His praise. 
 Till through us all have found liim, 
 And come Millenial days. 
 
•'THE BADGER." 
 
 Dear little badger 
 Emlem, sublime! 
 Our, ''Old Wisconsin" 
 Is yours and mine.. 
 
 E'er may our hearts, 
 Enjoy her sushine, 
 Sweet flowers bloom 
 And her bird songs divine. 
 
 Beauteous abode o'er 
 Lake, dells and road, 
 Full thousands have sought 
 Thy sweet heather. 
 
 There "ever, we'll love 
 Every rock, hill and glen, 
 Her eaglets and 
 Violets forever. 
 
 The badger here mentioned was caught 
 and brought to Great Falls, Mont., by 
 Edw. Lapeyre. 
 
EXORTATION 
 
 (At the ''Y. W. C. A.") 
 
 Tjost yon should take a notion, 
 To warlile forth a noto 
 And find perhaps, yon'd i-nined 
 Your swanlike, tuneful throat, 
 You'd better wear high collars 
 And do as you are told, 
 For fear the Goblins get you, 
 Before vou'r very old. 
 
 CLOSING. 
 
 May your lovelight 
 
 E'er be glowing 
 And your lives be 
 
 Brighter growing 
 As time goes by 
 
 With changes nigh 
 And age creeps on 
 
 Without your knowing. 
 

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