The Spirit of the West
By GEORGE B. STAFF
1912

It lured the pioneers in struggling hosts
To seek the Eldorado land of gold;

Their wagons crept across the plains like ghosts,
Or dared the mountain pass with purpose bold.

It hovers o'er the wondrous Western land ;

That land of untold greatness yet to be.
What wonder that men follow its command

And journey westward to the sunset sea.