North Carolina State Toast
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The North Carolina State Toast was adopted by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1957:
- Here's to the land of the long leaf pine,
- The summer land where the sun doth shine,
- Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great,
- Here's to "Down Home," the Old North State!
- Here's to the land of the cotton bloom white,
- Where the scuppernong perfumes the breeze at night,
- Where the soft southern moss and jessamine mate,
- 'Neath the murmuring pines of the Old North State!
- Here's to the land where the galax grows,
- Where the rhododendron's rosette glows,
- Where soars Mount Mitchell's summit great,
- In the "Land of the Sky," in the Old North State!
- Here's to the land where maidens are fair,
- Where friends are true and cold hearts rare,
- The near land, the dear land, whatever fate,
- The blest land, the best land, the Old North State!
See also
- "The Old North State," North Carolina's state song.