The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-02-21
YER MONT.


State. long coveted and fought for by New
Hampshire and New York, ..-
Where they raise the biggest pumpkins and tho
fattest of fat pork.
Favored land of maple honey, milk and all tha
sort of thing,
Where the very air breeds freedom and wher,
every mans king.
'Tis the best State in the Union for the cure O
that distress
laziness
at ease, ...... .....
And her winter such a tough one that he's bound
to work or freeze.
Stamped upon her wales and mountains, clearly
seen by every eye,
Are these words of solemn import-you must
either dig or die
She has raised the purest statesmen, honored
worldwide for their worth,
And the whitest. widest snow-storms that were
ever raised on earth.
We're there ever laid on canvass, for the love of
fame or gold,
Hues like those that clothe her naples when the
year is growing old.
Softer lights and richer shadows float before her
childrens eyes
Than have swept the worlds and waters under
meath Italian skies. ... .
And if western bugs aud locusts o'er her mead.
ows chance to stray. .H.
They are so delighted with them that they al.
ways want to stay,
Choosing rather TO be poisoned or to serve as
pickerel bait
Then to live in peace and plenty anywhere out
side the State. ..... ...
Was there ever breathed from organ, or rehearsed
in poets lines
Any music like the singing of the winds among
the pines
Any strains by spirits chanted through night Of
happy dreams
That surpassed the measures woven by the flow
ing of her streams
And her hill roads look like ladders leading up
through clouds to stars,
Hay ing for their rounds those patent ever blessed
water.bars
While her bridges so constructed. airy, tremu
lous and slight,
Can be crossed in comfort only when faith tri
umphs over sight.
Horses well, trot out that Morgan hitch heI
up and clear the way
See that gait Shc'll keep it steady through the
longest summer day
Swing buggy DER the mountain, reins drawn
loose or lying slack,
Turn at sundown to the stable not wet hair OF
her back.
Little is she well each finely moulded, supple
nervous limb
Is just like the State that raised her-crowded
full of life and vim
Maple sugar yes tell you, while snow falls and
west winds blow,
Old Vermont will lead the market in that article
you know ....
Oh, the tnkle of the dropping of the sap into the
pals ...
Was there ever such fantastic music borne upor
the gales ?
Was there ever sight more jolly seen by mortal'
here below
Than group of lads and lasses eating sugar up
on snow
There's her butter just look at it yellow al
HtI EOlutu lou
Colored yes with colors nature raised up will
her virgin sod
Bring that Jersey milk pailful and The cream
at once will rise,
Yellow as the film that glistens on Guinea mig
gers eyes.
Then the women are such marvels, made of sucf
superior parts,
That the butter, when they touch it, takes havoi
of their hearts .......
Every time they turn it over, knead it up, or tosi
it round,
Something seems to make it worth another cen
or two pound
See it ready for the market, wrapped in snow
white linen bands
And you'll say it wasn't moulded by common
sort of hands.
Old Vermont reigns in the market, in the Senate
House she reigns.
Famous as she is for butter, let her famous be
for brains.
For all sterling, manly virtues, that her name
may still command,
Honor, reverence, trust unshakcn, everywhere
thr )ughout the land.
Let the nation know that ever in the day ofbood
and tears,
She can count upon the valor of her hardy noun
taineers.
That in answer to the bugle forth from mountain
and from glen
Shall be marching to the battle fifty thousand
vaient men.
As they did-well, all men know it, for this fact
in history shines,
That Vermont is good at plowiug stony lands or
rebel lines.
A j. Hough in Vermplt Monthly.