has produced so many illustrious men as Virginia in the three hundred years of her existence. Massachusetts. GEORGE F. HOAB. VIRGINIA THE roses nowhere bloom so white As in Virginia; The sunshine nowhere shines so bright As in Virginia; The birds sing nowhere quite so sweet, For heaven and earth both seem to meet, There nowhere is a land so fair As in Virginia; So full of song, so free from care, As in Virginia; And I believe that Happy Land The Lord prepared for mortal man Is built exactly on the plan Of old Virginia. SELECTED. THE F. F. V.'S THOUGH the F. F. V.'s are hard to please, And very hard to find, Still the F. F. V.'s is a disease Of many a human mind; For the F. F. V.'s, the real ones, please, Are very hard to find; Yet the F. F. V.'s, those of disease (And quite a diff'rent kind!), Are the F. F. V.'s, as thick as peas, Toast the F. F. V.'s, the real ones, please, The ones so hard to find; And the F. F. V.'s, as thick as peas, Roast them within your mind. East Radford, Virginia. LILY TYLER. VIRGINIA My well-beloved Virginia! Oft at my mother's knee My well-beloved Virginia! No land so dear to me! VIRGINIA! FAIR VIRGINIA! EDWARD FAIRFAX NAULTY. |