The Minnesota Pioneer

The following pretty lines, are published
in the Grant County (Wis.) Herald,
as the composition of Miss Alma L. Co-Rey,
a girl of 13:

"We still want something more."

What though we have, what though we know,
All knowledge nature can bestow,
Though the vast earth should now unfold
All her deep mines of sparkling gold.
And spread them out before our eyes,
And ask us to accept the prize,
Should we possess the glittering store
We'd sigh and pant for something more.

Though at our bidding we could cause
All earth to rise and give applause,
Though our proud palace soars so high.
Its dome should seem the arching sky,
Though on each spire there sat a star
Throwing its radiant light afar,
Though ours each gem on Peru's shore,
We'd gaze and sigh for something more.

Though at our beck, should mountains kneel,
And winds should dance their circling reel
Though we could quell the tempest's noise,
Or hush the dreadful thunder's voice,
Defraud old age, retain our prime
And in our grasp could chain Old Time:
Though honor, wealth were ours; as eager as
before,
We'd wash the sea's last sands, to gain one jewel
more.