<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409059" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Charleston</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Calm as that second summer which precedes<br>The first fall of the snow,<br>In the broad sunlight of heroic deeds,<br>The City bides the foe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As yet, behind their ramparts stern and proud,<br>Her bolted thunders sleep --<br>Dark Sumter, like a battlemented cloud,<br>Looms o'er the solemn deep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No Calpe frowns from lofty cliff or scar<br>To guard the holy strand;<br>But Moultrie holds in leash her dogs of war<br>Above the level sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And down the dunes a thousand guns lie couched,<br>Unseen, beside the flood --<br>Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouched<br>That wait and watch for blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,<br>Walk grave and thoughtful men,<br>Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's blade<br>As lightly as the pen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And maidens, with such eyes as would grow dim<br>Over a bleeding hound,<br>Seem each one to have caught the strength of him<br>Whose sword she sadly bound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus girt without and garrisoned at home,<br>Day patient following day,<br>Old Charleston looks from roof, and spire, and dome,<br>Across her tranquil bay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ships, through a hundred foes, from Saxon lands<br>And spicy Indian ports,<br>Bring Saxon steel and iron to her hands,<br>And Summer to her courts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still, along yon dim Atlantic line,<br>The only hostile smoke<br>Creeps like a harmless mist above the brine,<br>From some frail, floating oak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall the Spring dawn, and she still clad in smiles,<br>And with an unscathed brow,<br>Rest in the strong arms of her palm-crowned isles,<br>As fair and free as now?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We know not; in the temple of the Fates<br>God has inscribed her doom;<br>And, all untroubled in her faith, she waits<br>The triumph or the tomb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Timrod">Henry Timrod</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=409059" data-title="Charleston de Henry Timrod" data-description="Calm as that second summer which precedes The first fall of the snow, In the broad sunlight of heroic deeds, The City bides the foe. As yet, behind their ramparts stern and proud, Her bolted thunders sleep -- Dark Sumter, like a battlemented clou..."></div> </div> </div>

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