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„„ its upper stretch sky scrapers line each side.
0n St Charles and Prytania are beautiful gardens and homes,
The fragrance of sweet olive and magnolia in the air roams.
In the old French Quarter of the city, the Hispano-Moresque style Shows traces of Spanish conquerors, who held it for awhile.
On Esplanade Avenue, with its tropical plants and flowers,
Is the Arch-Episcopal Palace, Creole homes and garden bowers.
Among stately plantations and mansions, westward the Trail winds, Here the two largest game preserves in the world one finds.
Thru an ancient civilization, with agricultural industry around.
Into Lake Charles, where the charm of the Old South is found. Orange, on the Sabine River, a shipbuilding center grows;
This turbulent thread of water, as in centuries past, still flows Between Louisiana and Texas, marking the boundary of Spanish
claims.
Over the Sabine in Louisiana, is the beginning of French names.
Hou^taUm°nt” ^ 011 port’ Houston’s rival below;
A..,„ °n’ commercial metropolis, guarding the Gulf of Mexico, •across Tevn •= „„
T0 San	an	emPire—in dreams from Spanish times,
The gr Ant;onio’ tlle opening to Mexico and southern climes. Central military center in the United States today; historic a ,aCi£iC and movements, or a Mexican gateway. A side trip torOInantic’ commercially great.
o Galveston; its harbor to New York a mate.