Castle On the Hill
Alva, Woods Co., Oklahoma Territory
The Western Normal College
by the Pilgrim Bard (Scott Cummins)
Pg. 39 - Musings of the Pilgrim Bard
Look ye! once that hill was bare,
Sunset rested on a prairie;
Short the space since buffalo
O'er the spot grazed to and fro;
Has Alladin's lamp and fairy
Caused the change so wondrous there?
Look ye! once upon that hill
Stood the roving red man's tepee;
There at pow-wow and at dance
Roasted dog was served perchance;
Squaws and bucks, in blankets creepy,
Sought repose when all was still.
Gone, the shaggy bison wild --
Gone poor "Lo," his business busted;
Far away the gray wolf's yell
Of the past the funeral knell;
Farmers, with the east disgusted,
Claim the place of nature's child.
Look ye! towering o'er yon slope
Stands a monument of knowledge;
Thing of beauty, massive, grand,
builded by skilled workman's hand --
Alva's Western Normal college,
Nucleus of our country's hope.
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