The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders / The Route of the Union Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads from Omaha to San Francisco, a Journey of Eighteen Hundred Miles Where Once the Bison & the Indian Reigned

by Union Pacific Railroad Company. Passenger Department; Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Department

Is about us here; and a sky so fair

Is bending above, so cloudless, blue,

That you gaze and you gaze and you dream, and you

See God and the portals of heaven there.

“O seas in a land! O lakes of mine!

By the love I bear and the songs I bring

Be glad with me! lift your waves and sing

A song in the reeds that surround your isles!—

A song of joy for this sun that smiles,

For this land I love and this age and sign;