2014 Indiana Code TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE 2. STATE EMBLEMS CHAPTER 5. STATE POEM
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IC 1-2-5
Chapter 5. State Poem
IC 1-2-5-1
Title and text
Sec. 1. The poem of Arthur Franklin Mapes, Kendallville,
Indiana, the title and text of which are set forth in full as a part of this
section, is hereby adopted as Indiana's official poem. It reads as
follows:
INDIANA
God crowned her hills with beauty,
Gave her lakes and winding streams,
Then He edged them all with woodlands
As the setting for our dreams.
Lovely are her moonlit rivers,
Shadowed by the sycamores,
Where the fragrant winds of Summer
Play along the willowed shores.
I must roam those wooded hillsides,
I must heed the native call,
For a pagan voice within me
Seems to answer to it all.
I must walk where squirrels scamper
Down a rustic old rail fence,
Where a choir of birds is singing
In the woodland . . . green and dense.
I must learn more of my homeland
For it's paradise to me,
There's no haven quite as peaceful,
There's no place I'd rather be.
Indiana . . . is a garden
Where the seeds of peace have grown,
Where each tree, and vine, and flower
Has a beauty . . . all its own.
Lovely are the fields and meadows,
That reach out to hills that rise
Where the dreamy Wabash River
Wanders on . . . through paradise.
(Formerly: Acts 1963, c.220, s.1.) As amended by Acts 1982, P.L.2,
SEC.6.
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