A miracle are these mountains; they have withstood. And cruelties many they have defied.
A miracle are these mountains, for they still stand. The ages spared no hardship upon this tortured land.
Withstand the ages that would see your end.
These mountains withstood; these mountains survived. These mountains still stand; these mountains still live. Through endless time, from old Earth to new, These mountains have stood; these mountains still live.
Ages of sun and atmosphere Wrought destruction upon these mountains.
Buried and uncovered, with once proud peaks Rended and cast into the sea, my mountains stand, still. And when all lands are again one, My Appalachians will reach the heavens once more.