Gift of the Sego Lily, The

DESCRIPTION: "So sunbaked, barren, bleak, and full of tears The country seemed; so stretched the endless years." Her husband brings her a "small floral gift." There is "no lovelier diadem" than the Sego lily. She blesses the man who brought her to "Dixie"
AUTHOR: Mabel Jarvis?
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle)
KEYWORDS: love marriage flowers home | Mormon
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle, pp. 78-79, "The Gift of the Sego Lily" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Sego Lily" (subject of the Mormon lily)
NOTES [98 words]: For St. George, Utah (known as the Mormon "Dixie"), and other songs about it, see the notes to "Saint George and the Drag-On."
The sego lily is a popular symbol in Utah; a Washington Post story ("This is Utah's new flag -- and here's why more states are mulling redesigns" by Kim Bellware; March 25, 2023) said that they are the flowers in the old Utah state flag. Of course, the reason the Post had the story was that Utah was planning to change its flag, mostly because it was too complicated. So the lilies are gone, but that doesn't really change their significance to the state. - RBW
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