Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-03-24
THE SONG OF THE vERMoNTERs.

"a In - the borders Yermonters come down
With your breeches Of eer-skin, and jackets o.
with your your red wooden caps, and your mooeasins
10 tbe Gathering summons Of trumpet and drum
Come down with your rifles t-let gray wolf and
Howl On in the shade Of their primitive rocks
Lei the bear feed securely from pig pen ana stai
| Hereis tWo-legged game for your powder anu jan
On our south come the Dutehmen, enyeloped In
And aF gpss for battle. while eanting for peaeei
on our East, crafty Meshech has gathered MS
TO hang '..' up our leaders and eat out our land
Uo all 10 the rescue For Satan shall work
No gain for bis legions Of Hampshire ana loIh
They claim our possessions-the Plthul i Aiats !
The tributes We pay shall be prisons ana graves
Let Clinton and Ten Brock with brides IN their
stiI seek TO divide Us. and parcel our lands
We've coats for our traitors, whoever they are
The warp Is Of feathers, the ming OF tsf
Does the aold Bay statea threaten? Does Cong
swarms Hampshlre in arms on our borders again
Bark the War-dogs OF Britain aloud on the lake
Let lem come, what they can they are weie9he
TO take.
What seek they among us2 The pride q our
Is comfort. eontentment, and labor and health,
Aud lands which, as freemen, We only have trod,
Independent OF ALL save the mereies o. toi
Yet we owe no allegiance; We bow 20 no thronei
our ruler Is law, and the law Is our owns
our leaders themselves are our own fellow men,
Who can handle the sword, or the seythe, or the
pen,
our wives are all true and daughters are tsir,
With their blue eyes of smiles, and their lght
All BRISK ar tbeir wheels TN the dark fam
Then blithe at the sleigh.rlde, the husking. ana
ball.
We've sheep on the hillside; we've cows on the
And gay -tasseled eorn-helds, and rank growing
grain.
There are deer on the mountains, and wood.
From tie crack Of our muskets, like clouds on
the sky.
And there's fish in our streamiets and rivers,
Their course from the hills to our broad-bosomed
lake.
Through rock-arched winooski the salmon leaps
And the portly shad follows all fresh from the sea.
Like sunbeam the piekerel glides through his
And tie spotted trout sleeps where the water Is
or d. 4 RON his shelter Of rock and OF root.
At beavers quick plunge or the anglers pur-
suit
And ours are the mountains which awfully rise,
Till they rest their green heads on the top Of the
And ours are the forests unwasted, unshoru,
Save where the wild path Of the tempest i torn.
And though savage and wild be this climate Of
And brief be our season u fruit and Of flowers.
Far dearer the blast round our mountain which
ayes
Than the sweet summer zephyr which breathes
over slaves
Hurrah for VERMONT for the land which We tin
Must have sons to defend her, from valley and
Leave the harvest 20 rot on the Geld where il
groWEt
And the reaplag Of wheat for the reaping Of foes
From far Michiscow's Wild valley, 10 where
Poosaomsuek steals down from bis woodscircled
lair,
From shoctcook river 20 Lutterlock town
Ha, all to the rescue Nermonters, come down
Come York or come Hampshire, come traitors
aud knaves.
II ye rule oer our land, ye shall rule o'er our
graves;
our vow Is recorded, our banner unfurled,
la the name Of Vermont We defy all the world