But there fairies helped me always to find
Flowers and friends both sweet and kind.
And so in "God's Country," the land of the rose
A real earthly heaven as everyone knows.
Again in far Georgia and Florida too
Pleasure were mine in landscapes quite new;
And though to Penn's country I wended my way
With dreadful misgivings in Pittsburgh to stay.
I found that sweet music and kindest of deeds
Conquered the smoke as salt kills the weeds.