Texas by Henry van Dyke — Read

A Democratic Ode / I

The Wild-Bees / All along the Brazos river, / All along the Colorado, / In the valleys and the lowlands / Where the trees were tall and stately, / In the rich and rolling meadows / Where the grass was full of wild-flowers, / Came a humming and a buzzing, / Came the murmur of a going / To and fro among the tree-tops, / Far and wide across the meadows.