<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400512" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Americanisation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Britannia needs no Boulevards,<br> No spaces wide and gay:<br>Her march was through the crooked streets<br> Along the narrow way.<br>Nor looks she where, New York's seduction,<br>The Broadway leadeth to destruction.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Britannia needs no Cafes:<br> If Coffee needs must be,<br>Its place should be the Coffee-house<br> Where Johnson growled for Tea;<br>But who can hear that human mountain<br>Growl for an ice-cream soda-fountain?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She needs no Russian Theatrey<br> Mere Father strangles Mother,<br>In scenes where all the characters<br> And colours kill each other--<br>Her boast is freedom had by halves,<br>And Britons never shall be Slavs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if not hers the Dance of Death,<br> Great Dostoievsky's dance,<br>And if the things most finely French<br> Are better done in France--<br>Might not Americanisation<br>Be best applied to its own nation?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere every shop shall be a store<br> And every Trade a Trust . . .<br>Lo, many men in many lands<br> Know when their cause is just.<br>There will be quite a large attendance<br>When we Declare our Independence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gilbert+Keith+Chesterton">Gilbert Keith Chesterton</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=400512" data-title="Americanisation de Gilbert Keith Chesterton" data-description="Britannia needs no Boulevards, No spaces wide and gay: Her march was through the crooked streets Along the narrow way. Nor looks she where, New York's seduction, The Broadway leadeth to destruction. Britannia needs no Cafes: If Coffee needs mu..."></div> </div> </div>

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