Sioux Falls

A thousand waterfalls in one,
A thousand rills around me run;
A thousand brooklets laugh and leap,
And make this lovely scene complete.

I love Dakota more and more -
Her prairies vast, her mines of ore -
I love her mountains and her glades,
But most her beautiful cascades.

And, though I roam in other lands -
In city dense, on ocean's strands -
Thy charms shall reign in mem'ry's halls,
And bring me back to thee, "Sioux Falls."