Rhymes of a Homesteader (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rhymes of a Homesteader<br><br>Rhymes of a Homesteader<br><br>The Sunflower Road<br><br>There's a land of opal mountains, singing creeks,<br>and springing fountains,<br>A land of magic distances in hazy, lazy light,<br>Where the pastel greens, and yellows, amber<br>browns, and purple shadows,<br>Make a glory of the daytime, and it's dusty blue at night.<br><br>When the summer sun is burning, there a friendly<br>road is turning,<br>Twisting, bending, rising, falling - just a trail<br>among the hills;<br>But't is bordered by the graces of a million golden<br>faces,<br>And the laughter of the sunflowers frees the heart<br>of all its ills.<br><br>Now the winter snows are driven through the<br>land; the trail is hidden.<br>Desolate, the white hills glitter under skies of<br>turquoise blue.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.