_he city Hall is remodeled from an old Spanish Market quaint,
L cathedral of tlie Immaculate Conception is Gothic without taint, Remininscent of French occupation, which in seventeen twenty-one Spread its influence over the city, like the rays of the setting sun. Beautiful colonial residences line the wide, shady streets;
Rambling about thru the city, scenes of other days one meets.
Once the home of Father Ryan, the beloved poet-priest;
His songs still live in memory, though his golden voice has ceased.
Now thru French-Spanish country, skirting the Gulf for miles;
The lapping waters bathe the trail, the cool breeze offers its wiles.
To Biloxi with its fish canneries; to Bay St. Louis quaint
With its old-world reminiscences, named for France’s saint.
Thru the Satsuma orange belt and the paper shell pecan,
Thru Alabama and Mississippi, to Louisiana on.
To the land of Evangeline, Longfellow’s immortal poem;
Among gnarled and moss-draped cypresses the lights and shadows
roam.
Here^8 Clescent City: The Cabildo attracts your sight;
.116 tlans£ei's °* Louisiana were made without a fight.
When 1116 °Id Cal)ildo Lafayette was entertained,
Around \.h SU6St °f tlle city’ in New Orleans he remained.
The Old	^ Armes, now called Jackson Square,
With fine pL°Uis Cattledral and the Court buildings share,
0£ squai^^11^ 10WS fIanking ttie two other sides
01 e General Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, rides.