Happy the City Where Their Sons {Happy the City Where Their Sons ILLINOIS-Composer Unknown Happy the City, Where Their Sons } Happy the city, where their sons Like pillars round a palace set, And daughters, bright as polished stones, Give strength and beauty to the state. Happy the land in culture dressed, Whose flocks and corn have large increase; Where men securely work or rest, Nor sons of plunder break their peace. Happy the nation thus endowed; But more divinely blest are those On whom the all-sufficient God, Himself, with all his grace bestows.