Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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PIONEER HISTORY OF INGHIAM COUNTY

Among the weak; and from thy heart, pillars
Shall soon be cut to stud the Capitol.
But thou shalt not be lone in thy proud fall;
A plague shall hang upon thy neighbors, too,
For death is on the woodman's greedy blade,
And it is bound to desolate thy fair
Domain. And where the sturdy forresters
For ages stood, a throng of active forms
With busy minds shall come, and rear huge halls,
And domes, and churches high, and porticos;
From out whose chambers iron tongues shall
Speak through brazen lips, and congregate proudmen
To worship God, discuss affairs of nation,
And of state. The soil where thou
Hast strewn thy
Yearly fruit, shall now be plotted by the
Just hand of art; and dwellings where strange
Passions of the human heart will ebb and
Flow, shall rise to vie with thy magnificence,
And strength, and round their base the blushing rose
Will cling, and lend her fragrance to the streets,
In which a busy throng will move in all
The gayety of fashionable life.
Thou who hast witness'd long the warring strife
Of winds, and waters, driving storms, and frosts,
Must listen, now, to wars of fiercer kind.
The hostile mind of parties politic
Will soon be gathered from this thriving state,
And join in conflict on contending plans,
Where mighty public int'rests are at stake
In secret rooms where portions of thy trunk
May chance to be, a knot of party-color'd
Men will often slip, by artful remedies
Adjust the pulse, and o'er a glass of wine,
Control the destinies of this great state.
-State Journal, 1920.