<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song of a Thousand Years</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lift up your eyes desponding freemen!<br>Fling to the winds your needless fears!<br>He who unfurl'd your beauteous banner,<br>Says it shall wave a thousand years!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;A thousand years!&quot; my own Columbia!<br>'Tis the glad day so long foretold!<br>'Tis the glad morn whose early twilight<br>Washington saw in times of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What if the clouds, one little moment,<br>Hide the blue sky where morn appears --<br>When the bright sun, that tints them crimson,<br>Rises to shine a thousand years?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tell the great world those bless-ed tidings!<br>Yes, and be sure the bondman hears;<br>Tell the oppress'd of ev'ry nation,<br>Jubilee lasts a thousand years!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fearless foes, beyond the ocean!<br>Little we heed your threat'ning sneers;<br>Little will they -- our children's children --<br>When you are gone a thousand years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rebels at home! go hide your faces --<br>Weep for your crimes with bitter tears;<br>_You_ could not bind the blessed daylight,<br>Though you should strive a thousand years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back to your dens, ye secret traitors!<br>Down to your own degraded spheres!<br>Ere the first blaze of dazzling sunshine<br>Shortens your lives a thousand years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haste thee along, this glorious Noonday!<br>Oh, for the eyes of ancient seers!<br>Oh, for the faith of Him who reckons<br>Each of his days a thousand years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Clay+Work">Henry Clay Work</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=408112" data-title="Song of a Thousand Years de Henry Clay Work" data-description="Lift up your eyes desponding freemen! Fling to the winds your needless fears! He who unfurl'd your beauteous banner, Says it shall wave a thousand years! &quot;A thousand years!&quot; my own Columbia! 'Tis the glad day so long foretold! 'Tis the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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