Vermont
by Julia C. R. Dor�(1825�1913) |
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BUT what to us are centuries dead,
And rolling years
forever fled,
Compared with thee, O grand and fair
Vermont,�our goddess mother?
Strong with the strength of
thy verdant hills,
Fresh with the freshness of mountain
rills,
Pure as the breath of the fragrant pine,
Glad
with the gladness of youth divine,
Serenely thou sittest
throned to-day
Where the free winds that round thee play
Rejoice in thy wave of sun-bright hair,
O thou, our
glorious mother!
Rejoice in thy beautiful strength and
say,
Earth holds not such another!
Thou art not old
with thy hundred years,
Nor worn with care, or toil, or
tears,
But all the glow of the summer time
Is thine
to-day in thy glorious prime!
Thy brow is fair as the
winter snows,
With a stately calm in its still repose;
While the breath of the rose the wild bee sips,
Half mad
with joy, cannot eclipse
The marvellous sweetness of thy
lips;
And the deepest blue of the laughing skies
Hides
in the depths of thy fearless eyes,
Gazing afar over land
and sea
Wherever thy wandering children be!
Fold on
fold,
Over thy form of grandest mould,
Floweth thy robe of forest green,
Now light, now dark, in
its emerald sheen.
Its broidered hem is of wild-flowers
rare,
With feathery fern-fronds light as air
Fringing
its borders. In thy hair
Sprays of the pink arbutus
twine,
And the curling rings of the wild grape-vine.
Thy girdle is woven of silver streams;
Its clasp with the
opaline lustre gleams
Of a lake asleep in the sunset
beams;
And, half concealing
And half revealing,
Floats over all a veil of mist
Pale tinted with rose and
amethyst! |
By Julia C. R. Dor�(1825�1913)
Listed , 2014 |
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