We shout in greeting back again,
Yankeeland, my Yankeeland!
The Wheeling Annual for 1885, quoted this parody without any acknowledgment of the source from whence it was derived. It was written by Mr. J. G. Dalton, and published in his volume of poems entitled Lyra Bicyclica. Hodges and Co., Boston, U.S. 1885. There was another cycling parody in The Umpire for May 5, 1888, on the same original, but not so good as the above.
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HAIL COLUMBIA!
The new verses to “Hail, Columbia!” written by Oliver Wendell Holmes for the American Centenary are as follows:—
1798.
Hail, Columbia! Happy land!
Home of heroes—Heaven-born band,
Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,