Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NEW HAMPSHIRE All hail, ye people of the Granite State, In acres small, in manhood's power great! All hail! ye sturdy sons of noble sires! Ye daughters fair, whose hearthstones glow with fires Of patriotic love! Upon the shrine Of Fatherland no gift excelleth thine. All hail! brave hearts, and let the welkin ring! Dear old New Hampshire's paeans let us sing! Some fain would praise the land of rolling plain, Shut out from glimpses of the vasty main; We love the beetling cliffs which daily seek The lightning's flash upon each craggy peak. Let others boast their shocks of golden corn, Which yield them wealth and all their fields adorn; Our products last beyond earth's widest ken,— The Old Stone Face proclaims that we raise men. These men have been among the Nation's great, Their words have scorned, their deeds have conquered fate. Whene'er from tyranny their swords could shield, They've always been the first to take the field. They've stood for equal rights 'twixt man and man, They are of those who do because they can. We find their names upon the scroll of fame, A place they've won with all the world's acclaim. Our fathers' God, to Thee we owe our birth In this fair land, most beautiful of earth. To God our joyful songs, then, let us sing; To Him a grateful tribute let us bring. Long live New Hampshire's great and glorious name! Secure her place, untouched by taint of shame. Long live the honor of the Granite State, Though small in size, renowned among the great! SONS OF TRINITY Sons of Trinity, give a rouse For your Alma Mater dear! For the lessons she hath taught us And the good which she hath wrought us Give a rouse, and a shout, and a cheer! Chorus— We're the sons of old Trinity, The loyal sons of Trinity, And th...