OHIO.
BY J. J. BLISS, BUCYRUS.
Lo, next the Union stars and stripes.
Ohio's pennant streaming!
Lo, in the field of brightest blue,
The Buckeye emblem gleaming!
Come muses, then, in chorus join
To voice Ohio's praises;
Aright your sweetest notes attune
And choose your fairest phrases.
CHORUS:
Ohio, our Ohio, most favored by the
fates!
Hurrah for dear Ohio, and our great
United States.
Sing forests vast of stately trees,
Choice orchards ranked in order,
Sweet silver streams and lakelet gems
That fertile fields embroider.
Sing mineral wealth beneath the soil,
That ages long hath waited,-
Coal, iron, oil, gas, stone and clay,
For human use created.
CHORUS:
Sing folk who builded mystic mounds
On plains and bluffs so quaintly,
Entombing selves and handicraft
That tell their story faintly.
Sing Redmen speeding birch canoes
On sparkling lakes and rivers,
Or trailing deer and buffalo
With arrows, bows and quivers.
CHORUS:
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