<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118737" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Liberty-Bell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With pomp attendant, and in garlands drest,<br>I journey from my sacred home once more;<br>Not this time to the new, triumphant West,<br>But to a land more dear to me of yore:<br>A land in memory sweet as the perfume<br>Of twining jasmine and magnolia bloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though old and broken, for that memory's sake—<br>The memory of honored things gone by,<br>I will forget my length of years, and make<br>This pilgrimage unto her Southern sky,<br>So Georgia's children, too, my face may know,<br>And wreathe me proudly with their mistletoe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their fathers knew me, and in that great hour<br>When in the Hall of Freedom, since my home,<br>They signed the Charter, born of love and power,<br>That made them one, I, from the lofty dome</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above them, loudly rang the brave command,<br>Proclaiming Liberty throughout the land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men pass away, but I do not forget;<br>And though, alas, I have been silent long,<br>The echoes of my ringing vibrate yet,<br>From pole to pole, in every freeman's song;<br>And she who shared my May, in my December<br>Shall gaze upon my face, and will remember!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Georgia, to thee I come as to my own,<br>Undying laurels for thy heroes bringing,<br>Who sacrificed themselves to right alone,<br>Who signed for Liberty, and set me ringing.<br>The word they witnessed then, I bear to all,—<br>We stand, united; we, divided, fall!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Georgia! land of Gwynnett, Walton, Hall!<br>Whose star was one of the sublime Thirteen,—<br>A pledge of hope and happiness to all,<br>A sign of victory, wherever seen,—<br>That vow the Fathers made, their sons fulfill,<br>The stars they joined shine on, united still!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118737" data-title="The Liberty-Bell de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="With pomp attendant, and in garlands drest,/I journey from my sacred home once more;/Not this time to the new, triumphant West,/But to a land more dear to me of yore:/A land in memory sweet as the perfume/Of twining jasmine and magnolia bloom./Tho..."></div> </div> </div>

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