In royal power of accomplishment,
That claims the gaze of nations over sea
And beckons, still, as in the years agone.
The weary ones of earth to its domain—
That they may drink from undiluted founts
An inspiration of new energy.
LOUIS J. STELLMAN,
in Sunset Magazine, August, 1903.
DESERT LURE.
The hills are gleaming brass, and bronze the peaks,