May 6, 2010, Introduced by Senator BARCIA and referred to the Committee on Local, Urban and State Affairs.
A bill to adopt an official state poem.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. "Land of the Wolverine", by E. J. McGuire, is adopted
as the official poem of this state:
LAND OF THE WOLVERINE
While traveling rustic roadways
through the valleys and forests green,
We observe the stately magnificence
in the land of the Wolverine.
From the colossal land of the Hartwicks
to the abodes of the Iroquois,
To the sparkling, roaring waters
flowing over the Tahquamenon,
From the Great Lakes sandy beaches
to the Porcupines deepest draw,
To the vastness of its forests
to the land of the Chippewa.
Where the Algonquin once had hunted,
where the hart has chased the roe,
Where the eagle soared in silence,
where the balmy breezes blow;
Where the logger left his historic mark
in the tall and stately pine
While far below the "Mole Men"
worked their copper mines.
Where the coyote stalks the snowshoe,
where the red fox hunts the grouse,
Where the busy beaver works his dam
and the marsh rabbit his adobe house;
Yet, let us not forget dear friends
as we take in every scene,
And be proud that we are members
of the land of the Wolverine.