Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INDIANA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: Our land - our home! The common
Last Line: "the land elysian, marveling ""this is ours!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Peace; Liberty


OUR Land -- our Home! -- the common home indeed
Of soil-born children and adopted ones --
The stately daughters and the stalwart sons
Of Industry: -- All greeting and godspeed!
O home to proudly live for, and, if need
Be, proudly die for, with the roar of guns
Blent with our latest prayer. -- So died men once. . . .
Lo, Peace! . . . As we look on the land THEY freed --
Its harvest all in ocean-overflow
Poured round autumnal coasts in billowy gold --
Its corn and wine and balmed fruits and flow'rs, --
We know the exaltation that they know
Who now, steadfast inheritors, behold
The Land Elysian, marveling "This is ours!"





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