Book of Poems, Tales of the Hoosier Traveler Embracing the Following Subjects

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Excerpt from Book of Poems, Tales of the Hoosier Traveler Embracing the Following Subjects: Travels Through the United States and Mexico, Canada, Alaska, West Indies and the Philippines, The Inferno, and Essays on AstronomyT the still midnight I lay in bed, Visions of beauty surrounded my head.While I thus lay in silent slumbers, Those visions then rolled into numbers, My thoughts ran along in a beautiful metre That I never beheld any poetry sweeter. I seemed in a garden filled with birds and bees, With flowers and fruits, with grasses and trees, And as I stepped in, I saw to my right The State of Maine, a pretty bonite, Next New Hampshire, there by her side, A very neat pansy trying to hide.Here, said the gardener, pass this way And see Massachusetts, a pink on the Bay, And stationed there, just over her head The State of Vermont, a hollyhock red.As we turned to the left, I saw within reach The State of Rhode Island, a nice rosy peach. Here, said the gardener, pointing ahead The State of Connecticut, a rose so red, And nestled there, close by her side, Stood New Jersey, the white bride. New York was an apple, so mellow and sweet, Pennsylvania, a pear, hanging near that retreat, And traveling near the trees so tall Delaware, a grape, running over the wall. Here, near the sea so blue Maryland is my fine pansy, too, And near by that secreted spot Is Columbia, a touch-me-not. Virginia, a violet, West Virginia, a princess feather, Were growing side by side, and look well together. Come this way, the gardener said, Is North Carolina, a cranberry red, South Carolina, a rice stalk of emerald green, Near by was Georgia, a large bunch bean.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.