“Great Spirit of the Cornlands” by N. C. Wyeth in a 1942 Thanksgiving ad for Niblets Brand Corn.

And the maize-field grew and ripened,

Till it stood in all the splendor

Of its garments green and yellow,

Of its tassels and its plumage,

And the maize-ears full and shining

Gleamed from bursting sheaths of verdure.

[From “Blessing the Cornfields,” The Song of Hiawatha, by Longfellow]

 

From the land of Hiawatha / The Story of Our Native Corn from Indian Days to Niblets Brand Whole Kernel Corn

 

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