The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
   - Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Marshall Pass photo


Here is a land where life is written in Water
the West is where the Water was and is
Father and Son of old Mother and Daughter
Following Rivers up immensities

Of Range and Desert thirsting the Sundown ever
Crossing a hill to climb a hill still Drier
Naming tonight a City by some River
A different Name from last night's camping Fire

Look to the Green within the Mountain cup
Look to the Prairie parched for Water lack
Look to the Sun that pulls the Oceans up
Look to the Cloud that gives the oceans back
Look to your Heart and may your Wisdom grow
To power of Lightning and to peace of Snow.

 

Thomas Hornsby Ferril (1896 – 1988) was Colorado’s first Poet Laureate.
The words here are inscribed within the rotunda of the state capitol in Denver.



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