Monday, October 20, 2014

In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v6

Quiet, stoic granite men
some more wordy, but normally silent,
Long in the land and happy for the stillness,
The solitude of the ancient hayfield,
the thick forest, the craggy shore, the stormy sea

Flinty like the land, the earth
dependable as the seasons
Taciturn Yankees one and all
Of older stuff remembering the virtues
of holding the tongue, stiff upper lip
and shoulder to the task before them

Idle hands they have not
farmers and journeymen,
And we are richer for it
flinty Yankees of the land
thankful for the harvest


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edited October 20, 2014
In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v6

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In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v5
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In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v4
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In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v3
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September 20, 2005 12:41
“In Praise of Taciturn Yankees”
– While I was driving to work this morning on Rte 101 in NH, one of the NHPR reporters was talking about the new Encyclopedia of New England (http://www.unh.edu/news/news_releases/2005/september/em_050919encyclopedia.htm). They were commenting how New England isn’t just made up of maple syrup, town meetings, and taciturn Yankees.

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