The Prairie States + 

A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude, + 

Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, + 

With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one, + 

By all the world contributed⁠—freedom’s and law’s and thrift’s society, + 

The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time’s accumulations, + 

To justify the past. + 