Founders of Ohio
The footsteps of a hundred years
Have echoed since o'er Braddock's Road
Bold Putnam and the Pioneers
Led History the way they strode.
On wild Monongahela stream
They launched the Mayflower of the West,
A perfect State their civic dream,
A new New World their pilgrim quest.
When April robed the Buckeye trees
Muskingum's bosky shore they trod;
They pitched their tents and to the breeze
Flung freedom's banner, thanking God.
As glides the Oyo's solemn flood
So fleeted their eventful years;
Resurgent in their children's blood,
They still live on—the Pioneers.
Their fame shrinks not to names and dates
On votive stone, the prey of time:
Behold where monumental States
Immortalize their lives sublime!
Have echoed since o'er Braddock's Road
Bold Putnam and the Pioneers
Led History the way they strode.
On wild Monongahela stream
They launched the Mayflower of the West,
A perfect State their civic dream,
A new New World their pilgrim quest.
When April robed the Buckeye trees
Muskingum's bosky shore they trod;
They pitched their tents and to the breeze
Flung freedom's banner, thanking God.
As glides the Oyo's solemn flood
So fleeted their eventful years;
Resurgent in their children's blood,
They still live on—the Pioneers.
Their fame shrinks not to names and dates
On votive stone, the prey of time:
Behold where monumental States
Immortalize their lives sublime!
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