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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420705" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Golden Wedding Of Longwood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow,<br>The Golden Age, old friends of mine, is not a fable now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, sweet as has life's vintage been through all your pleasant past,<br>Still, as at Cana's marriage-feast, the best wine is the last!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again before me, with your names, fair Chester's landscape comes,<br>Its meadows, woods, and ample barns, and quaint, stone-builded homes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The smooth-shorn vales, the wheaten slopes, the boscage green and soft,<br>Of which their poet sings so well from towered Cedarcroft.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And lo! from all the country-side come neighbors, kith and kin;<br>From city, hamlet, farm-house old, the wedding guests come in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they who, without scrip or purse, mob-hunted, travel-worn,<br>In Freedom's age of martyrs came, as victors now return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Older and slower, yet the same, files in the long array,<br>And hearts are light and eyes are glad, though heads are badger-gray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fire-tried men of Thirty-eight who saw with me the fall,<br>Midst roaring flames and shouting mob, of Pennsylvania Hall;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they of Lancaster who turned the cheeks of tyrants pale,<br>Singing of freedom through the grates of Moyamensing jail!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And haply with them, all unseen, old comrades, gone before,<br>Pass, silently as shadows pass, within your open door,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The eagle face of Lindley Coates, brave Garrett's daring zeal,<br>Christian grace of Pennock, the steadfast heart of Neal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah me! beyond all power to name, the worthies tried and true,<br>Grave men, fair women, youth and maid, pass by in hushed review.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of varying faiths, a common cause fused all their hearts in one.<br>God give them now, whate'er their names, the peace of duty done!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How gladly would I tread again the old-remembered places,<br>Sit down beside your hearth once more and look in the dear old faces!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thank you for the lessons your fifty years are teaching,<br>For honest lives that louder speak than half our noisy preaching;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For your steady faith and courage in that dark and evil time,<br>When the Golden Rule was treason, and to feed the hungry, crime;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the poor slave's house of refuge when the hounds were on his track,<br>And saint and sinner, church and state, joined hands to send him back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blessings upon you!--What you did for each sad, suffering one,<br>So homeless, faint, and naked, unto our Lord was done!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair fall on Kennett's pleasant vales and Longwood's bowery ways<br>The mellow sunset of your lives, friends of my early days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May many more of quiet years be added to your sum,<br>And, late at last, in tenderest love, the beckoning angel come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear hearts are here, dear hearts are there, alike below, above;<br>Our friends are now in either world, and love is sure of love.</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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