Our woodsbred northern women (There were no weaklings there:
Maine, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, their glory share;
They were New England women, as brave as they were fair)—
Our woodsbred northern women (They sent their sires and sons,
The husbands of their bosoms, their well-beloved ones,
To dare the foeman’s anger and to face the foeman’s guns)—
Our woodsbred northern women (whose men went forth to war)
Wove ’mid the woods a banner their bairns and brothers bore,
Wove ’mid the woods a banner to carry on before.
Our woodsbred northern women wove not in red or gold;