<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341606" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Babylon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Babylon has fallen! Aye; but Babylon endures <br>Wherever human wisdom shines or human folly lures; <br>Where lovers lingering walk beside, and happy children play, <br>Is Babylon! Babylon! for ever and for aye. <br>The plan is rudely fashioned, the dream is unfulfilled, <br>Yet all is in the archetype if but a builder willed; <br>And Babylon is calling us, the microcosm of men, <br>To range her walls in harmony and lift her spires again; <br>The sternest walls, the proudest spires, that ever sun shone on, <br>Halting a space his burning race to gaze on Babylon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Babylon has fallen! Aye; but Babylon shall stand: <br>The mantle of her majesty is over sea and land. <br>Hers is the name of challenge flung, a watchword in the fight <br>To grapple grim eternities and gain the old delight; <br>And in the word the dream is hid, and in the dream the deed, <br>And in the deed the mastery for those who dare to lead. <br>Surely her day shall come again, surely her breed be born <br>To urge the hope of humankind and scale the peaks of morn -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To fight as they who fought till death their bloody field upon, <br>And kept the gate against the Fate frowning on Babylon. <br>Babylon </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+George+Stephens">Alfred George Stephens</a><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=341606" data-title="Babylon de Alfred George Stephens" data-description="Babylon has fallen! Aye; but Babylon endures Wherever human wisdom shines or human folly lures; Where lovers lingering walk beside, and happy children play, Is Babylon! Babylon! for ever and for aye. The plan is rudely fashioned, the dream is ..."></div> </div> </div>

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