{"data":{"id":"us-in/ic-1-2-5-1","jurisdiction":"us-in","citation":"IC 1-2-5-1","heading":"Title and text","body":"Sec. 1. The poem of Arthur Franklin Mapes, Kendallville, Indiana, the title and text of which are set forth in full as a part of this section, is hereby adopted as Indiana's official poem. It reads as follows:\nINDIANA\nGod crowned her hills with beauty,\nGave her lakes and winding streams,\nThen He edged them all with woodlands\nAs the setting for our dreams.\nLovely are her moonlit rivers,\nShadowed by the sycamores,\nWhere the fragrant winds of Summer\nPlay along the willowed shores.\nI must roam those wooded hillsides,\nI must heed the native call,\nFor a pagan voice within me\nSeems to answer to it all.\nI must walk where squirrels scamper\nDown a rustic old rail fence,\nWhere a choir of birds is singing\nIn the woodland . . . green and dense.\nI must learn more of my homeland\nFor it's paradise to me,\nThere's no haven quite as peaceful,\nThere's no place I'd rather be.\nIndiana . . . is a garden\nWhere the seeds of peace have grown,\nWhere each tree, and vine, and flower\nHas a beauty . . . all its own.\nLovely are the fields and meadows,\nThat reach out to hills that rise\nWhere the dreamy Wabash River\nWanders on . . . through paradise.","path":["TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS","ARTICLE 2. STATE EMBLEMS","Chapter 5. State Poem"],"source_url":"https://iga.in.gov/ic/2026/Title_1.html#1-2-5-1","current_through":"2026","vintage":"2026","retrieved_at":"2026-06-30T21:27:13Z","sha256":"ff25172e019347c652b9f81db096d8d12da57cd9974bad471012bda53bb713c4","source_id":"us-in","stale":false,"prev":"us-in/ic-1-2-4-1","next":"us-in/ic-1-2-6-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}