Music:  Country Roads

By:  Hermes House Band

    Thomas J. Cambell Cogar                         and "friend"

       b: 1848  Gilmer Co., VA

       d: 1934  Braxton Co., WV

Where the mountain river flows

And the rhododendron grows

Is the land of all the lands

That I touch with tender hands;

Loved and treasured, earth and star,

By my father's father far--

Deep-earth, black-earth, of-the-lime

From the ancient oceans' time.

Plow-land, fern-land, woodland shade,

Grave-land where my kin are laid,

West Virginia's hills to bless--

Leafy songs of wilderness;

Dear land, near land, here at home

Where the rocks are honeycomb,

And the rhododendrons . . .

Where the mountain river runs.

Poem: West Virginia

Author: Louise McNeill 

By: Louise McNeill