University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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If av-coao zeainct d EvereH Dale especially for the 1936 SOONER. I sing a song of the dreamers Who builded a Western state Toiling and moiling and dreaming They labored early and late Making the village a city The cabin a mansion grand They builded better far than they knew Here in the Mistletoe Land. They builded homes for their children Their sons and daughters fair Stores and shops and highways broad Where once was a prairie bare Towers that rise to meet the skies Wells that are deep in the sand Bringing up oil, the fruit of their toil To gladden the Mistletoe Land. I sing a song of the dreamers Who builded a Western state Toiling and moiling and dreaming They labored early and late Theirs is a wonderful story But who can the tale relate. Man made canyons tower above avenues of commerce in Okla- homa City as Tulsa ' s lights twinkle in fan- tastic array I? 3 S S5 '

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■ ' . A i-M M ' h. veiiiiiCj The western sky is tinged with red and gold The hills show purple in the waning light Slowly the fiery sun has sunk fronn sight The evening air grows dannp and slightly cold, The shepherd drives his flock into the fold, Above the hill-top wheels the hawk in flight While from their lairs come creatures of the night So timid ' neath the sun but now so bold. Above the trees peeps out the first bright star The whippoorwill sends forth his mournful cry, We hear his mate give answer from afar. The night wind sings a dreamy lullaby, From distant west fades out each crimson bar And soon all earth in slumber wrapped shall lie. from The Prairie Schooner and Other Poems by Edward Evereft Dale