The Clopton Chronicles

A Project of the Clopton Family Genealogical Society

 

 

 

VIRGINIA

By Catherine M. Warfield[1]

 

 

Glorious Virginia!  Freedom sprang

Light to her feet at thy trumpet’s clang

At the first sound of that clarion blast,

Foes like the chaff from the whirlwind passed –

Passed to their doom; from that hour no more

Triumphs their cause by sea or shore.

 

Glorious Virginia!  Noble the blood

That hath bathed thy fields in a crimson flood;

On many a wide-spread and sunny plain,

Like leaves of autumn they dead have lain;

The Southron heart is their funeral urn!

The Southron slogan their requiem stern!

 

Glorious Virginia!  To thee, to thee

We learn, as the shoots to the parent tree;

Bending in awe at thy glance of might; -

First in the council, first in the fight!

While our flag is fanned by the breath of fame,

Glorious Virginia!  We’ll bless thy name.

 

 

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