<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409165" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An American in Europe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down<br>Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, <br>To admire the crumbly castles and the statues of the kings, --<br>But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it's home again, and home again, America for me!<br>My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be,<br>In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars,<br>Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;<br>And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;<br>And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;<br>But when it comes to living there is no place like home. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I like the German fir-woods, in green battalions drilled;<br>I like the gardens of Versailles with flashing fountains filled;<br>But, oh, to take your hand, my dear, and ramble for a day<br>In the friendly western woodland where Nature has her way! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack:<br>The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.<br>But the glory of the Present is to make the Future free, --<br>We love our land for what she is and what she is to be. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it's home again, and home again, America for me!<br>I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea,<br>To the blessed Land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,<br>Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Van+Dyke">Henry Van Dyke</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=409165" data-title="An American in Europe de Henry Van Dyke" data-description="'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, To admire the crumbly castles and the statues of the kings, -- But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things. So it's home again, and h..."></div> </div> </div>

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