<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343034" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Bartholdi Statue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Liberty, God-gifted--<br> Young and immortal maid--<br> In your high hand uplifted,<br> The torch declares your trade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Its crimson menace, flaming<br> Upon the sea and shore,<br> Is, trumpet-like, proclaiming<br> That Law shall be no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Austere incendiary,<br> We're blinking in the light;<br> Where is your customary<br> Grenade of dynamite?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Where are your staves and switches<br> For men of gentle birth?<br> Your mask and dirk for riches?<br> Your chains for wit and worth?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Perhaps, you've brought the halters<br> You used in the old days,<br> When round religion's altars<br> You stabled Cromwell's bays?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Behind you, unsuspected,<br> Have you the axe, fair wench,<br> Wherewith you once collected<br> A poll-tax for the French?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> America salutes you--<br> Preparing to 'disgorge.'<br> Take everything that suits you,<br> And marry Henry George.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</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=343034" data-title="To the Bartholdi Statue de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="O Liberty, God-gifted-- Young and immortal maid-- In your high hand uplifted, The torch declares your trade. Its crimson menace, flaming Upon the sea and shore, Is, trumpet-like, proclaiming That Law shall be no more. Austere incendiary,..."></div> </div> </div>

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