05/18/2009 4:34 PM
Posted by Whitetigress
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You ask me why I love her?
Well, give me time, and
I'll explain...
Have you seen a Kansas sunset or an Arizona
rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way?
Have you
watched the cold fog
drifting over San Francisco Bay?
Have
you heard a Bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines?
Or heard the bellow
of a diesel in the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you
when you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder
at a Massachusetts shore...
Where men who braved a hard new
world,
first stepped on Plymouth Rock?
And do you think of them
when you stroll along a New York City dock ?
Have you seen a
snowflake drifting in the Rockies
...way up high?
Have you seen the
sun come blazing down
from a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the
Columbia as she rushes to the sea...
Or bow your head at
Gettysburg...
in our struggle to be free?
Have you seen the
mighty Tetons?
...Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the
Mississippi
roll along Missouri's shore?
Have you felt a chill at
Michigan,
when on a winters day,
Her waters rage along the shore
in a thunderous display?
Does the word "Aloha"... make you
warm?
Do you stare in disbelief
When you see the surf come roaring
in at Waimea reef?
From Alaska's gold to the
Everglades...
from the Rio Grande to Maine...
My heart cries out...
my pulse runs fast at the might of her domain.
You ask me why I
love her?
... I've a million reasons why.
My beautiful America...
beneath Gods' wide, wide sky.
