Harry Kemp - Kansas

Let other countries glory in their past,
But Kansas glories in her days to be,
In her horizons limitless and vast,
Her plains that storm the senses like
the sea;
She has no ruins gray that men revere -
Her time is 'Now,' Her heritage
is 'Here.'

Harry Kemp

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