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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420599" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One Of The Signers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O storied vale of Merrimac<br>Rejoice through all thy shade and shine,<br>And from his century's sleep call back<br>A brave and honored son of thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unveil his effigy between<br>The living and the dead to-day;<br>The fathers of the Old Thirteen<br>Shall witness bear as spirits may.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unseen, unheard, his gray compeers<br>The shades of Lee and Jefferson,<br>Wise Franklin reverend with his years<br>And Carroll, lord of Carrollton!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be thine henceforth a pride of place<br>Beyond thy namesake's over-sea,<br>Where scarce a stone is left to trace<br>The Holy House of Amesbury.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A prouder memory lingers round<br>The birthplace of thy true man here<br>Than that which haunts the refuge found<br>By Arthur's mythic Guinevere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The plain deal table where he sat<br>And signed a nation's title-deed<br>Is dearer now to fame than that<br>Which bore the scroll of Runnymede.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long as, on Freedom's natal morn,<br>Shall ring the Independence bells,<br>Give to thy dwellers yet unborn<br>The lesson which his image tells.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in that hour of Destiny,<br>Which tried the men of bravest stock,<br>He knew the end alone must be<br>A free land or a traitor's block.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among those picked and chosen men<br>Than his, who here first drew his breath,<br>No firmer fingers held the pen<br>Which wrote for liberty or death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not for their hearths and homes alone,<br>But for the world their work was done;<br>On all the winds their thought has flown<br>Through all the circuit of the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We trace its flight by broken chains,<br>By songs of grateful Labor still;<br>To-day, in all her holy fanes,<br>It rings the bells of freed Brazil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O hills that watched his boyhood's home,<br>O earth and air that nursed him, give,<br>In this memorial semblance, room<br>To him who shall its bronze outlive!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thou, O Land he loved, rejoice<br>That in the countless years to come,<br>Whenever Freedom needs a voice,<br>These sculptured lips shall not be dumb!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a><div class=q>
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Rejoice through all thy shade and shine,
And from his century's sleep call back
A brave and honored son of thine.

Unveil his effigy between
The living and the dead to-day;
The fathers of the Old Thirteen
Shall witness b..."></div>
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