Very nice cinderella!
Although I don't know where this poem came from, nor the author, I found it in a philatelic publication promoting the 1922 APS Convention, so I thought I'd post it here:
Quote:
There's a Springfield in Ohio,
and there's one in Illinois;
There's another in Kentucky,
where the blue grass waves in joy.
Even Hoosier Indiana
claims a Springfield as her own,
While Missouri boasts her Springfield
and is waiting to be shown.
There's a Springfield in Nebraska,
and Wisconsin also counts,
While the Springfield, Colorado,
rears its head among the mounts.
Oregon and South Dakota
do not have to seek in vain,
Washington on the Pacific has its Springfield;
so has Maine.
In New Jersey and New Hampshire,
in Vermont and Tennessee,
Minnesota, West Virginia,
there are Springfields, three and three.
'Way down south in Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, as well,
Still we find the name of Springfield,
still we feel its mystic spell.
But when people mention Springfield,
none of these comes to mind;
There's another, better Springfield,
that the others all combined——
Yes a bigger, grander Springfield
which I all ways can surpass,
The score of other Springfields——
Here's a health to Springfield, Mass.
Posted 09/20/2011 06:29 am
