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TRIBUTE TO DUBUQUE by OPAL A. DENIO

First Line: ONCE MORE I GAZE UPON THESE WOODED HILLS
Last Line: REMEMBERED HILLS AND VALES WHERE REVERIES DWELL.
Subject(s): DUBUQUE, IOWA;

Once more I gaze upon these wooded hills
Whose rugged cliffs have seasoned many a storm,
Where lazily the Mississippi spills
Within the shelter of some steepened form.

From out these rocky summits trees are born;
Majestic in their beauty here they rise;
Their noble heads gift-laden to adorn
The city which so far below them lies.

Many a lover's moon has shed its gleams
Upon some rustic place where starlight fell,
These age old bluffs abound with someone's dreams,
Remembered hills and vales where reveries dwell.



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