The Swan's Song

 The Swan's Song

(HYMN)

By GRACE MCCORMAC FRENCH 

IN April days of sun and rain 
The farmer hastes his seed to plant,
 But stops his team to gaze and hark 
To Nature's wildest mating chant.

They come, they come, trumpeting 

swan 

Their migrant instinct they obey. 

To nest upon the Arctic's shores- 

God speed them on their north-bound 

way.

The band of silv'ry forms then pass 

Before the black cloud's threaťning 

face, 

And long the trumpet call is heard, 

Though shining forms are lost in 

space. 

The husbandman resumed his toil, 

And pondered on the ways of man 

Who would destroy for sport and greed 

Last members of a mighty clan.

Oh, pray that soon the sense of right 

Will stay man's oft destroying hand; 

That happy birds may safely roam 

Across this boasted freeman's land.  

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL ARTICLE PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AMERICAN COOPERATIVE JOURNAL    APRIL 1922

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL ARTICLE PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL  HYMN, RECITATION,  MOTION SONG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THIS ARTICLE IS  PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL HYMN OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE STATES OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND THE NORTH DAKOTA,  AND THE ORIGINAL RECITATION, WHICH REACHED US FROM THE DAYS OF THE PILGRIMS WHO REACHED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CENTURIES AGO. THE ORIGINAL HYMN, RECITATION AND MOTION SONG WAS SERIOUSLY STILL CHANTED IN THE CELEBRATIONS OF THE EASTER MORNING AND THE FATHERS DAY AND MOTHERS DAY  IN THE STATES OF NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA IN THE YEAR OF 1921.