<p class="tit-song">THE DESERTED ADOBE <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page350" name="page350"></SPAN>(p. 350)</span></p>
<p>Round the 'dobe rank sands are thickly blowin',<br/>
Its ridges fill the deserted field;<br/>
Yet on this claim young lives once hope were sowing<br/>
For all the years might yield;<br/>
And in strong hands the echoing hoof pursuin'<br/>
A wooden share turned up the sod,<br/>
The toiler brave drank deep the fresh air's brewin'<br/>
And sang content to God.<br/>
<span class="add1em">The toiler brave drank deep the fresh air's brewin'</span><br/>
<span class="add1em">And sang content to God.</span></p>
<p>A woman fair and sweet has smilin' striven<br/>
Through long and lonesome hours;<br/>
A blue-eyed babe, a bit of earthly heaven,<br/>
Laughed at the sun's hot towers;<br/>
A bow of promise made this desert splendid,<br/>
This 'dobe was their pride.<br/>
But what began so well, alas, has ended—,<br/>
The promise died.<br/>
<span class="add1em">But what began so well alas soon ended—,</span><br/>
<span class="add1em">The promise died.</span></p>
<p>Their plans and dreams, their cheerful labor wasted<br/>
In dry and mis-spent years;<br/>
The spring was sweet, the summer bitter tasted,<br/>
The <span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="page351" name="page351"></SPAN>(p. 351)</span> autumn salt with tears.<br/>
Now "gyp" and sand do hide their one-time yearnin';<br/>
'Twas theirs; 'tis past.<br/>
God's ways are strange, we take so long in learnin',<br/>
To fail at last.<br/>
<span class="add1em">God's ways are strange, we take so long in learnin',</span><br/>
<span class="add1em">To fail at last.</span></p>
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