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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409903" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>America</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand<br>I saw a Banner in gladsome air-<br>Starry, like Berenice's Hair-<br>Afloat in broadened bravery there;<br>With undulating long-drawn flow,<br>As rolled Brazilian billows go<br>Voluminously o'er the Line.<br>The Land reposed in peace below;<br>The children in their glee<br>Were folded to the exulting heart<br>Of young Maternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Later, and it streamed in fight<br>When tempest mingled with the fray,<br>And over the spear-point of the shaft<br>I saw the ambiguous lightning play.<br>Valor with Valor strove, and died:<br>Fierce was Despair, and cruel was Pride;<br>And the lorn Mother speechless stood,<br>Pale at the fury of her brood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet later, and the silk did wind<br>Her fair cold for;<br>Little availed the shining shroud,<br>Though ruddy in hue, to cheer or warm<br>A watcher looked upon her low, and said-<br>She sleeps, but sleeps, she is not dead.<br>But in that sleep contortion showed<br>The terror of the vision there-<br>A silent vision unavowed,<br>Revealing earth's foundation bare,<br>And Gorgon in her hidden place.<br>It was a thing of fear to see<br>So foul a dream upon so fair a face,<br>And the dreamer lying in that starry shroud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But from the trance she sudden broke-<br>The trance, or death into promoted life;<br>At her feet a shivered yoke,<br>And in her aspect turned to heaven<br>No trace of passion or of strife-<br>A clear calm look. It spake of pain,<br>But such as purifies from stain-<br>Sharp pangs that never come again-<br>And triumph repressed by knowledge meet,<br>Power delicate, and hope grown wise,<br>And youth matured for age's seat-<br>Law on her brow and empire in her eyes.<br>So she, with graver air and lifted flag;<br>While the shadow, chased by light,<br>Fled along the far-brawn height,<br>And left her on the crag.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herman+Melville">Herman Melville</a><div class=q>
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Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand
I saw a Banner in gladsome air-
Starry, like Berenice's Hair-
Afloat in broadened bravery there;
With undulating long-drawn flow,
As rolled Brazilian billows go
Voluminously o'er the Line.
The Land reposed..."></div>
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