Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

BEYOND THE WEST.
Age after age these noble hills have kept
The same majestic lines;
Age after age the horizon's edge been swept
By fringe of pointed pines.
Summers and winters circling came and went,
Bringing no change of scene;
Unresting, and unhastening, and unspent,
Dwelt nature here serene.
Till God's own time to plant of Freedom's seed,
In this secluded soil,
Deigned forever unto blood and greed,
But blessed to honest toil.
Be mine the dreams prophetic. shadowing forth
The things that yet shall be,
When through the gate the treasures of the North
Flow outward to the sea."
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