#VirginiaIsForLovers

 

Only this state flag

includes, let alone features,

death - by sword and spear.

Only this state seal

threatens, in no unclear terms, 

death - and conquered crowns.

We rally around

not e pluribus unum1,

ad astra per aspera2,

qui transtulit sustinet3,

excelsior4, dirigo5,

montani semper liberi6,

si quaeris peninsulam amoenam - circumspice7,

or esto perpetua8,

but Death - to Tyrants9.

#VAisforlovers

1: out of many, one (North Dakota)

2: to the stars through difficulties (Kansas)

3: he who transplanted still sustains (Connecticut)

4: ever upward (New York)

5: I direct (Maine)

6: mountaineers are always free (West Virginia)

7: if you seek a pleasant peninsula look around (Michigan)

8: let it be perpetual (Idaho)
9: sic semper tyrannis (Virginia)