People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — Bohemia. [ARTICLE]

Bohemia.

“I’d rather live in Bohemia Than in any other land.”—John Boylr O’Reilly. Where lieth the land, Bohemia? Is it enchanted ground? Unto the place no guide or trace Was e'er by searching found. Yet many wander through it In blindness or in scorn And some there dwell who lovs V well: They are Bohemians born. Here lieth the land, Bohemia! Strange light upon its beams, This border-land, whose outer strand Melts in the Sea of Dreams. Behind us roars the Real, The world of strife and-din; Our kindlier fate is here to wait Until our ships come in. O’ershadowing Bohemia, Fame, like a mountain grand, Piercing the skies, uplifts our eyes From this, the lotos-land, The summit gleams in splendor, And beckons spirits bold, Fain would we go: yet, ah! we know The heights of Fame are cold. resting in Bohemia, Beside the waters still, In meadows green, where Hippocrene Winds as a little rill, We deem in pleasant places Are cast our lines and lives. Where grace and heart are more than art, And chivalry survives. —New York Sun.