Ohio History Journal

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OHIO

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.

 

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