Kutztown University - Keystonia Yearbook (Kutztown, PA)

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Poem for Pennsylvania There were the beginnings The hacking away of the forests, (Forests fertile with virgin lumber) The hewing of logs into cabins, rrhe planning and building of Philadelphia. Yes, there were the beginnings, And with the beginnings Great men to fulfill a dream: Call the roll of famous men Bart ram, Hamilton, and Wolfe. Men who laid the cornerstone. Men who kept themselves aloof From petty deed and dark disgrace. The one, a scientist great, The one, a man of vision Saw schooling in this state. The other proved his mettle In the Independence Hall, A man of faith designed it. It sounded liberty’s call. There were the beginnings. And after the beginnings? Much sweat and many tears, Much destruction and rebuilding And new enterprises . . . 'i'he new mixed with the old. The facts stirred in with the superstition. Yes, for Here is the Eric Canal, Cut through government red tape. Here the gray or red-roofed towns; Here the hexed bar ns,wide mouthed, gape. (And the new mixed with the old.) iiiiiiniiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinimimmiimMiiimiiumimimimimimiiimHiiiiiiiiiimiMniimiMiiiiiiimimmiiiiimimimimiiiiiiiiiii 10

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Poem kok Pennsylvania (Continued) It is a varied land. It is a varied land, this Pennsylvania. It is a giant of steel, Of factories and mills; Yet it cradles small farms . . . Holds gently in its loins The vibrating cities of industry. It is a varied land: hand of mountains and orchards. Land of forests and plains. Land of droughts and disasters. Land of the abundant rains. Land of steel and land of mills, Tall buildings rise from the flats, Industries h urn ming together, Tall buildings are the shy slats. Land of the tunneled coal mines Running deep under the earth, Land of the slate piled mountain. Increasing the land’s great worth. It is a varied land, this Pennsylvania! And its future? Its future is being written By Smiths, O'Learys, and Hermansaders, By Epsteins, Ferris, and Sandercoeks: In the mines, the factories, the mills, In the farms, the schools, the shops. They are writing Pennsylvania’s future, They are flinging out the Challenge, The Challenge of a free state! And its future? Its future is being written In the hearts of its people. Ruth Elizahkth Shook, ’45 luiiiniiMiliniiiiiiiaiiiaiimiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiialiaiiniiniiiiiituiiuiitiiiiMiiHiiuiuiiiHiitiiimti .............................................................................................................................................................. 11