Places Mentioned in The Song
Eight Iowa municipalities are named near the conclusion of the song, in the following order ("Hawkeye" is description of Iowa, not a town):
- Dubuque
- Des Moines
- Davenport
- Marshalltown
- Mason City (Willson’s birthplace)
- Keokuk
- Ames
- Clear Lake
Read more about this topic: Iowa Stubborn
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“Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long- wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.”
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you pick out
your own song from the uproar
line by line,
and at last throw back
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