<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357743" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One Hundred Years</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, Batman, Prophet Batman, a hundred years ago,<br>He looked upon this land and found it good.<br>&quot;'Tis the place to build a village,&quot; bold Batman said, and so<br>They straight began - or so I've understood<br>To fling rude huts together by the swamp and by the stream,<br>To make beginning here and then for Batman's daring dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Batman, Prophet Batman, was quite a modest cove;<br>His vision sought no far and fabled goals.<br>A village he could picture here; but no vast treasure trove<br>A mighty city of a million souls<br>A miracle arising by the swamp and by the stream<br>In the hundred years that followed on one pioneering dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I, far lesser prophet, stand here to view the scene<br>Tall spire, proud dome athwart a sunny sky,<br>This far-flung city basking by many a garden green<br>Yet hopelessly I fail to prophesy.<br>While earth holds threat and promise both, and high hope walks with dread,<br>Then who may claim the vision of one hundred years ahead?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall yet a greater miracle arise beside the stream,<br> When wiser plans of wiser men prevail<br>Some shining City of Content beyond man's boldest bream?<br>Or must a world's mad frenzy end the tale,<br>And, in a hundred years from now, another village rise<br>To shield indomitable man ‘neath ruin-fretted skies?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357743" data-title="One Hundred Years de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Now, Batman, Prophet Batman, a hundred years ago, He looked upon this land and found it good. &quot;'Tis the place to build a village,&quot; bold Batman said, and so They straight began - or so I've understood To fling rude huts together by the sw..."></div> </div> </div>

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