These are New England names I love:

Deerfield River and Provincetown,

Gurnet Point where the beach goes down,

Monhegan, Boothbay, Damariscove.

The shores of Maine, Monadonock,

New England rivers and towns and hills,

Connecticut, Berkshire, Mountain Mills

New England earth and New England rock.

How can a man go west of Hudson River,

Or south below Long Island Sound,

And not remember, and not turn round,

And not come back to his home forever?

Concord and Lexington call and call.

How can he not be hungry to hear

Vermont and Maine, not want to be near

Now England elm trees, slim and ta1l?

There's name and sound and feel or a place

In hearing Androscoggin said,

And to hear Hyannis or Marblehead

In a stranger's town, is a well-known face.

Newburyport and Christmas Cove,

Exeter, Hadley, Freedom, Lynn:

In outland states where I have been

These are New England names I loved.