Welcome are all earth’s lands, each for its kind,
- Welcome are lands of pine and oak,
- Welcome are lands of the lemon and fig,
- Welcome are lands of gold,
- Welcome are lands of wheat and maize,
- welcome those of the grape,
- Welcome are lands of sugar and rice,
- Welcome the cotton-lands,
- welcome those of the white potato and sweet potato,
- Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies,
- Welcome the rich borders of rivers, table-lands, openings,
- Welcome the measureless grazing-lands,
- welcome the teeming soil of orchards, flax, honey, hemp;
Welcome just as much the other more hard-faced lands,
- Lands rich as lands of gold or wheat and fruit lands,
- Lands of mines,
- lands of the manly and rugged ores,
- Lands of coal, copper, lead, tin, zinc,
- Lands of iron—lands of the make of the axe.