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CROWNING VERMONT; FOR THE BROOKLYN SOCIETY OF VERMONTERS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall we crown vermont? With the beauty and balm of her mountains?
Last Line: With the might of the hills and the seas we will crown her to-day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Patriotism; Vermont


HOW shall we crown Vermont? With the beauty and balm of her mountains?
The wealth of her fields of clover, her quarries, and flocks, and corn?
The charm of her towns, hill-guarded, or set by Champlain's clear fountains,
Or Connecticut, fairest river, that winds through the meads of morn?

Nay! for the fame of her sons is more than her quarries and clover;
Strength of the hills is theirs, like her Allen of bravest mould
Who seized Ticonderoga in the name of the great Jehovah
And the Continental Congress — bold as the right is bold.

Strength of the hills is hers; aye, and the strength of the waters!
Proud she points to her Dewey that morn in Manila Bay;
Happy the hearts and homes of her patriot sons and daughters —
With the might of the hills and the seas we will crown her to-day!





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