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! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by KATHARINE LEE BATES BETROTHED ANEW by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN THE EGYPTIAN PRINCESS by EDWIN ARNOLD TRAFFIC WARNING by RICHARD WARNER BORST AN INVOCATION by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |