KANSAS (a recitation) Would you like to hear me say My lesson in geography? Listen, then, while I begin it; I can give you all thats in it; Ever word I want to tell -- Teacher says I know it well. Kansas! born amid the strife Menacing a Nations life, In the crimson tide baptized-- Blood of martyrs sacrificed-- Struggling, battling, growing strong, In her ceaseless strife with wrong Yielding never in the fight Till the victory of right, Kansas stands among her mates One of these United States; North, Nebraska is found, Missouri is her eastern bound South, the Nation greets our eyes, And Colorado westward lies. Time would fail to speak her praises, Tell her worth and what she raises; Corn and cotton, grains and grasses, Peanuts, castor-beans, molasses, Fruit of all kinds, nuts persimmons, Gallant men and handsome women. To the stars through clouds she rises, Conquering foes in all disguises; Cyclones threaten desolation; Flood and fire bring devastation; Grasshoppers have tried to eat her; Whisky rings would fain defeat her; But, borne onward, upward ever, May her banner waver never. Maggie Kilmer pg 102 in the Kansas Day book a collection by Kansas Authors Copyright 1892 call# KANSAS 808.81 BAR
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