AMERICA
by: Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)
 LOVE thine inland seas,
- Thy groves of giant trees,
- Thy rolling plains;
- Thy rivers' mighty sweep,
- Thy mystic canyons deep,
- Thy mountains wild and steep,
- All thy domains;
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- Thy silver Eastern strands,
- Thy Golden Gate that stands
- Wide to the West;
- Thy flowery Southland fair,
- Thy sweet and crystal air, --
- O land beyond compare,
- Thee I love best!
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"America" is reprinted
from The White Bees and Other Poems. Henry van Dyke. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. |
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