<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391801" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ho For California!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rouse ye, Yankees, from your dreaming!<br>See that vessel, strong and bold,<br>On her banner proudly streaming,<br>California for gold!<br>See a crowd around her gather,<br>Eager all to push from land!<br>They will have all sorts o' weather<br>Ere they reach the golden strand.<br>Rouse to action,<br>Fag and faction;<br>Ho, for mines of wealth untold!<br>Rally! Rally!<br>All for Cali-<br>Fornia in search of gold!<br>Away, amid the rush and racket,<br>Ho for the California packet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wake ye! O'er the surging ocean,<br>Loud above each coral cave,<br>Comes a sound of wild commotion<br>From the lands beyond the wave.<br>Riches, riches, greater--rarer,<br>Than Golconda's far-famed mines;<br>Ho for California's shores!<br>Where the gold so brightly shines.<br>O'er the ocean<br>All's commotion;<br>Ho for mines of wealth untold!<br>Countless treasure<br>Waits on pleasure;<br>Ho for California's gold!<br>Let us go the rush and racket,<br>On the Californian packet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear the echo wildly ringing<br>Through our country far and wide!<br>Thousands leaving home and springing<br>Into the resistless tide.<br>Now our nation's roused from sleeping,<br>All alert and wide awake.<br>O, there's no such thing as keeping<br>Folks asleep when gold's the stake!<br>Old Oregon<br>We'll look not on;<br>Ho, for mines of wealth untold!<br>We'll take our way,<br>Without delay,<br>In search of gold--of glittering gold!<br>Here we go, amid the racket,<br>On the Californian packet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yankees! all who have the fever,<br>Go the rush without delay!<br>Take a spade and don your beaver;<br>Tell your friends you must away!<br>You will get a sight o' money;<br>Reap perhaps a hundred-fold!<br>O, it would be precious funny<br>To sit in a hall of gold!<br>Let's be going,<br>Gales are blowing,<br>Ho, all hands for digging gold!<br>Romance throwing<br>Colors glowing<br>Round these mines of wealth untold!<br>Ho, we go amid the racket,<br>On the Californian packet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</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=391801" data-title="Ho For California! de Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" data-description="Rouse ye, Yankees, from your dreaming! See that vessel, strong and bold, On her banner proudly streaming, California for gold! See a crowd around her gather, Eager all to push from land! They will have all sorts o' weather Ere they reach the golde..."></div> </div> </div>

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