<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358045" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Warrnambool</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A civic lady, peerly proud<br>Of excellences that here crowd<br>About her trim, well-ordered streets:<br>The visitor she warmly greets<br>E'er with a bland and kindly smile,<br>Full conscious of her grace the while <br>A grace that comes of duty done<br>Thro' long years in her grateful sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fit cause for pride lies in her past:<br>Her solid buildings, reared to last,<br>And all her old-world atmosphere<br>Hinting at Holland quaintly here,<br>With windmills turning in the breeze<br>Wafted from her historic seas<br>That knew the sails of venturers<br>Long ere this pleasant land was hers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stone man's footprints, graved in stone,<br>About her ancient rocks are known;<br>Here, too, the Spaniard, 'neath her wave,<br>Found with his stately ship a grave.<br>And thus, thro' hist'ry, can she show<br>How men may wax and men may grow<br>By wisely planned development<br>To an estate of proud content.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, 'mid her rich lands of the south <br>Cast from a burning mountain's mouth<br>She grows her fruits and lives her life<br>Remote from hectic city strife.<br>And who shall come to her wide sea,<br>Seeking her hospitality,<br>In this contented dame shall find<br>A gracious lady, calm and kind.</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=358045" data-title="Warrnambool de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="A civic lady, peerly proud Of excellences that here crowd About her trim, well-ordered streets: The visitor she warmly greets E'er with a bland and kindly smile, Full conscious of her grace the while A grace that comes of duty done Thro' long yea..."></div> </div> </div>

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