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VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-11-16 11:38 AM



I wrote this this morning with the tune of "God Bless the U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood, going through my head. Hope it works.

A Song of My Country

from the place where Lady Liberty
stands upon that eastern shore
overlooking mighty waters
where the great Atlantic pours

along lustrous sands
north to Maine’s rugged rocks
then south along the seaboard
past a hundred bustling docks

around the Flor’da Penins’la
toward the Gulf of Mexico
across this mighty nation
with its heart quite well in tow

slipping on above Baja
California here we come
then north to Oregon and Washington
yet very far from done

east again past great glaciers
prairies and Rocky Mountain high
slipping past the Great Lakes
heaving, well, a sigh
dancing through Iowa corn
and sailing Mississippi wails
toward the great Grand Canyon
and the western bobbing quail

then lifting up to air born
for graceful Hawaiian sands
and on to Alaska
with its caribou, moose bands

this land of America
may God bless it every day
let us hold it in our hearts and in our minds
every time we pray

then with a mighty shout
and our banner waving grand
we’ll hold each brother, sister
with a gentle, loving hand

©November 16, 2001

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

© Copyright 2001 Virginia Salter - All Rights Reserved
Sudhir Iyer
Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium
1 posted 2001-11-16 12:29 PM


this is wonderfully written...

regards,
sudhir

Startime
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since 2000-10-03
Posts 5918
Canada
2 posted 2001-11-16 06:50 PM


It works all right. WOW!!!So very well done. I loved the read.  

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

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