Full well they tilled the barren soil--
Full well they sowed the seed--
Full well they held by life and life
The seal of the title deed.
From Bunker Hill to Yorktown
They waged a sacred fray:
Oh Sons of Iron Men give ye not
Your heritage away.
By commerce, mart and culture
Ye’ve raised a mighty state;
But ’ware the pampered spirit,
Ere ye ’ware the worst too late.
By commerce, mart and culture
Thrive ye forevermore,
But hold ye to the Iron Age--
The Iron Age of War.
With rugged heart and sinew--
With spirit stern and high,
Keep ye the ways o’ warrior days--
The days that may not die.
Keep ye the ways o’ warrior days,
Maintain the armor bright,
For where ye’ve raised your fathers blazed--
_Hold ye their honor white_.
That through the unborn years to come--
Unpampered, age on age--
Shall guarded stand their promised land--
Our Sacred Heritage.