<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420648" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bartholdi Statue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The land, that, from the rule of kings,<br>In freeing us, itself made free,<br>Our Old World Sister, to us brings<br>Her sculptured Dream of Liberty,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unlike the shapes on Egypt's sands<br>Uplifted by the toil-worn slave,<br>On Freedom's soil with freemen's hands<br>We rear the symbol free hands gave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O France, the beautiful! to thee<br>Once more a debt of love we owe<br>In peace beneath thy Colors Three,<br>We hail a later Rochambeau!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rise, stately Symbol! holding forth<br>Thy light and hope to all who sit<br>In chains and darkness! Belt the earth<br>With watch-fires from thy torch uplit!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reveal the primal mandate still<br>Which Chaos heard and ceased to be,<br>Trace on mid-air th' Eternal Will<br>In signs of fire: 'Let man be free!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shine far, shine free, a guiding light<br>To Reason's ways and Virtue's aim,<br>A lightning-flash the wretch to smite<br>Who shields his license with thy name!</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> <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=420648" data-title="The Bartholdi Statue de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="The land, that, from the rule of kings, In freeing us, itself made free, Our Old World Sister, to us brings Her sculptured Dream of Liberty, Unlike the shapes on Egypt's sands Uplifted by the toil-worn slave, On Freedom's soil with freemen's hand..."></div> </div> </div>

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