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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409235" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Glory of Ships</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The glory of ships is an old, old song,<br>since the days when the sea-rovers ran <br>In their open boats through the roaring surf,<br>and the spread of the world began; <br>The glory of ships is a light on the sea,<br>and a star in the story of man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Homer sang of the galleys of Greece<br>that conquered the Trojan shore,<br>And Solomon lauded the barks of Tyre that<br>brought great wealth to his door, <br>'Twas little they knew, those ancient men,<br>what would come of the sail and the oar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Greek ships rescued the West from the East,<br>when they harried the Persians home; <br>And the Roman ships were the wings of strength<br>that bore up the empire, Rome;<br>And the ships of Spain found a wide new world,<br>far over the fields of foam. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the tribes of courage at last saw clear<br>that the ocean was not a bound,<br>But a broad highway, and a challenge to seek<br>for treasure as yet unfound;<br>So the fearless ships fared forth to the search,<br>in joy that the globe was round. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their hulls were heightened, their sails spread out,<br>they grew with the growth of their quest; <br>They opened the secret doors of the East,<br>and the golden gates of the West; <br>And many a city of high renown<br>was proud of a ship on its crest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fleets of England and Holland and France<br>were at strife with each other and Spain; <br>And battle and storm sent a myriad ships<br>to sleep in the depths of the main; <br>But the seafaring spirit could never be drowned,<br>and it filled up the fleets again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They greatened and grew, with the aid of steam,<br>to a wonderful, vast array,<br>That carries the thoughts and the traffic of men<br>into every harbor and bay;<br>And now in the world-wide work of the ships<br>'tis England that leads the way. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O well for the leading that follows the law<br>of a common right on the sea!<br>But ill for the leader who tries to hold<br>what belongs to mankind in fee!<br>The way of the ships is an open way,<br>and the ocean must ever be free! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remember, O first of the maritime folk,<br>how the rise of your greatness began. <br>It will live if you safeguard the round-the-world road<br>from the shame of a selfish ban;<br>For the glory of ships is a light on the sea,<br>and a star in the story of man!</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>
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In their open boats through the roaring surf,
and the spread of the world began; 
The glory of ships is a light on the sea,
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