A Pennsylvania Beauty View
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| "Penn-Sylvania" (Penn's Woods) It seems the joy of Heaven Just flashes at sunset's glow, Over the Alleghenies And the rivers down below; From Lake Erie to the Delaware. O'er the Masnon-Dixon Line, You get a glimpse of Heaven Each evening at sunset time. A commonwealth of landscapes From neadow to timber-line. Keystone of the great Union. Since seventeen eithty-nine; Kissed by Atlantic breezes, From lands of the rising sun. Home of the "Quaker City", Where the Liberty Bell was rung. Checkered with mighty highways, Through mountain, valley and glen. And beautified by rivers, Is this wonderland of Penn; Where states were forgeted in Union, And were welded to remain, At Valley Forge and Gettysburg, In the land of Anthony Wayne. When William Penn completed his deal for Penn's Woods, now called Pennsyylvania, he little realized that in that tract would eventually be found nature's whole line of scenic splendors. Hain's poem pictures this natural beauty with native historical ability. |
