Ohio History Journal


502 Ohio Arch

502        Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.

 

 

PROLIFIC OHIO.

 

 

LUCIEN SEYMOUR.

[The following poem was recited by the author at the unveiling

of the Perry's Victory Monument, at Hotel Victory, Put-in-Bay, Ohio,

July 8, 1907.]

 

The sun never shone on a country more fair

Than beautiful, peerless Ohio.

There's life in a kiss of her rarified air,

Ohio, prolific Ohio.

Her sons are valiant and noble and bright,

Her beautiful daughters are just about right,

And her babies, God bless them, are clear out of sight-

That crop never fails in Ohio.

 

Our homes are alight with a halo of love,

Ohio, contented Ohio;

We bask in the smiles of the heavens above

No clouds ever darken Ohio.

Our grain waves its billows of gold in the sun,

The fruits of our orchards are equaled by none,

And our pumpkins, some of them, weigh almost a ton-

We challenge the world in Ohio!

 

Our girls are sweet models of maidenly grace,

In this modern Eden, Ohio.

They are perfect in figure and lovely in face,

That's just what they are in Ohio.

Their smiles are bewitching and winning and sweet,

Their dresses are stylish, yet modest and neat,

A Trilby would envy their cute little feet,

In beautiful, peerless Ohio.

 

When the burdens of life I am called to lay down,

I hope I may die in Ohio.

I never could ask a more glorious crown

Than one of the sod of Ohio.

And when the last trump wakes the land and the sea,

And the tombs of the earth set their prisoners free,

You may all go aloft, if you choose, but for me,

I think I'll just stay in Ohio.