The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-28
Awake, 0 Muse, and sing with ioy

Awake, o Muse, and sing with Joy
The honors of the Pine Tree State;
NO nobler themes your strains employ
You sing her sons, the true and great.
The country knows them, one and all;
Wherever they wander, East or West
They hear with pride her bugle call
She always finds them "up and dressed"
*What word is this that makes US start?
Our President resigns. tits said.
The news that nearly breaks our heart.
Alas! quite takes away our Head.
Another star will now arise
We are prepared for any fate
Undo the knot-don't break the ties
or brothers from the Pine Tree State.
The rising sun, when morning breaks,
Gilds old Katahdin's lofty height;
At noon her forests ard her lakes
Reflect to heaven the splendid light.
At eve her livers, wide and deep,
As they to ocean onward flow,
Mirror each green or rugged steep
Bathed in the sunset golden glow.
So. everywhere, by hill and dale,
And far among her sombre pines,
On rich and poor, in town and vale,
The light of truth and freedom shines;
And work and worth on learning wait;
And youths are bright and maids are fair
If once they breathe the ambitious air
That blows across the Pine Tree State.
Wherever there you wend your way.
By lowly cot, or gilded spire,
You see the light of wisdom play,
You feel Ambitions glowing fire.
You greet-a lad with rapid walk,
Homer and Virgil on his arm
You'd like it If he'd pause and talk
AS off he goes from shop or farm;
But no! he only turns to say
Cant stopl / II see you later on,
For must be at school today
But,-calL on me In Washington"
The Supreme Court a Chief requires,
man, not Wisdem's self more wise,
Whose judgment Truth itself inspires
Where Justice sits with blindfold eyes,
They look our wide dominion DER
Thousands are learned, thousands great
But when the Whitehouse lightning strikes.
1t hits son of Pine Tree State.
The President had need, of late,
The Nations Cabinet to build;
Full well he knew the Chair of Sta;e
With matchless talent must be filled.
With lightning speed the summons ran,
Among the wise, among the great,
To find the nations brightest man
And found him in the Pine Tree state.
Erstwhile the Assembled Wisdom had
To fill the Speakers vacant chair,
Some statesmen might be good, or bad,
There must not be a failure there.
The canvas DER, the vote was laid,
Again the Pine Tree State did lead,
And when the final choice was made,
mat choice was not "broken" Reed,
VI all the Ruling Powers can grant
of honored posts of high degree,
Ihough Others may have all they want,
Our Maine men hold the highest three,
we proudly name them DER and DER.
Chief Justice. Speaker Head OF State.
These and their peers and hundreds more
Do honor to the Pine Tree State.
The West may boas her mines of gold
And fields of waving grain;
Her wealth of herds and fiochs untold,
On every grassy plain.
The South may show her boundless range
OF snow-white cotton fields;
And sunny shores where every grange
The orange perfume yields;
New York her commerce may extend,
A thousand ships day,
While Massachusetts sits enthroned
By Boston's glorious Bay;
But year by year our brothers show
BY speech, by sword and pen,
Whatever other States may grow,
The Pine Tree State grows men.
Such men tonight we hither sped,
good two hundred strong;
Why we so grieve to close our Head"
The head we lose is Long;
Yet when another takes the chair,
No GOODNESS shall there be,
Wen give him for his welcome there,
A Pine State "three times three.p
sAt TINS meeting Ex-Gov John d. Long retire
rom the presidency of the Clnh and Eon
Martin was elected President ''" 'on' a.