The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-29
Poetry.
TWri ten for THE PRoGREsSlVE
THE OLD NORTH STATE"

As the goddess of liberty tne HN
rar hack in the days that have passed away,
Came our fathers in search . d
From the oriental regions, from oppression and
rDe StF came Gi in search of a happier life.
When the blood of the brave leaped light and
thew IFf looked to a land far over the sea.
70 a land where the oppressed might freedom
vrbppF Flz the stars shono brighter in the Western
skies.
TINS the rroud North State first blushed to
affar radiant flowers and fields aglow-
sbar own rich soil and purest air,
And verdure wild surprising IalF-
,ri, +be,e the m~ockingbird's notes do ring,
When sgringtime flowers his presence bring.
rbora the nightingale tits his chorus gay
tnfb e Tearns and signs for the break of day.
Rras+bes here a man with a soul so weak
Who does not of her proudly speak,
Who heart does not with rapture swell
With bnrning pride no tongue could tell.
Repeat in poem. by prose or mouth
This noble State and blooming South.
No drawer SOUS did Janus know;
When Rome in cOnQuering pride did glow;
No daughters more lovely, your eyes for to greet,
Though Venus may tremble while this y repeat.
Her sons of the bravest. her daughters most fair;
Her q. innate most lovely, her pleasures most rare.
Her forest are teeming with. all kinds of wood,
Her homes are delighted with the words of Il e
goOi.
In her hills gold and silver in abundance are
And ali useful minerals her borders surround.
Her s~ceneriss are grand as the world ever knew,
Her sons to her glory stand firmly and true.
Her mountains are decked with glittering
On her plains lofty pines boast their own grace
tul bowers.
Her forests are lovely with birdnest in them
White their respective songsters the sw, etest
music lit.
Then where could be more lovely than North
Should any wish to leave it and go afar to roam
How varied her climate, how pure is the air,
Which gives health to her sons and daughters
so fair.
She reaches from the French Broad whose suIIen
To the tpily eastern regions where At'antic's
Her hight from Mt. NitcheH's crest of endless
Where none but Arctic masses would dare at
tempt to grow,
To the low |alIuvisI regions, and ponds Of sink
Where we see rice fields in culture and hear the
cracking frog.
Then turn to natures beauties, both in and out
of doors,
First see her mountain gorges through which
Her grandeur so magnificent, it makes me long
to soar
Far up in the areaI and view her Landscape or.
Her braves heed first the ~war-whoop when the
And bare their noble bosom to the storm of bat
tie vie;
But when the battle'sover and the bloOd-stained
banner turled,
Her ensign beckons onward the oppressed of all
the world.
Then onward" be her motto till crowned by
HeI sons walk home to honor, and speak with
pride her name.
Then with enravishing sympathy we'll sing in
-gladdening tones
The requiem of a pas. DIS cadence, and oppres-
sion grOans,
And feel that she hasTon a fame that will for
ever glare
Her posterity's obscure trials or v~ictries march
to cheer.
Then praise be to herhonor the goddess Of valor
and love,
The home Of the quaI's shriu whistle and pride
OF the cooling dove
How grand her institutions which afford access
to gain
A course of useful kowIedge to fashion up the
brain;
For entering on fe's ocean where lighthouses
Men must deal with larsh regards, as well as
kind and true.
Her soil is productiveof many kinds of grain.
And other useful prGucts which add unto her
gam.
Her s~treamlets, creeB and rivers add grandeur
And furnish ample ower for driving all ma
chimes.
Along her restless waters we hear the ceaseless
Of many busy spindes and never-tiring looms,
And there our NATIVE cotton and wool of finest
grade
In Dixle's sunny borers to useful fabric made.
Nori is this all the USE to US those rivers here we
As they roll their turbulent waters in laughing
and glee;
For on their heavingoosoms and gently swelling
Majestic boats in gandeur upon them safely
ride.
Her railways, too, are many. Hark! hear the
rumbling wheel,
As they're at great swiftness drawn DER the
iron rails.
Oh what Las man Invented? There's nothing
hall so grand
10 tame that IOcOrnCIir "a To move at his COM
&nand!
her thirsty monarch on Atlantic's
Shay shore,
Then Coward the T ky Mountains we hear her
treSess roar.
SwtfteE strides,
Till n Paohacss bile she bathes her painting
Too, men have nGade the lightning their bidding
heed,
Till by it through our country go words at dash
Then ought not Nbrth Carolina racaiy. orr will
ling love,
Since cen IN her happy borders so many glories
neE MONIES are post delightful and will for
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