From Easton to West

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



Maryland is really nice
If you don’t look past the sugar and spice

If you look across the Chesapeake Bay
You’ll find its leaders are really gay

They fly around on silver wings
And say the most incredible things

But Chesapeake into the depths perhaps
And there you’ll find some huge mishaps

They’ve blown up bridges and tunnels and tracks
They’ve told bold lies that they won’t take back

And although they know that God can see
They forgot about Jesus when they forgot about me
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Written on December 10, 2007

Submitted by dawg4jesus on December 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA BB CC DD XX EE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 493
Words 91
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

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