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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Vow Of Washington</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sword was sheathed: in April's sun<br>Lay green the fields by Freedom won;<br>And severed sections, weary of debates,<br>Joined hands at last and were United States.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O City sitting by the Sea<br>How proud the day that dawned on thee,<br>When the new era, long desired, began,<br>And, in its need, the hour had found the man!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One thought the cannon salvos spoke,<br>The resonant bell-tower's vibrant stroke,<br>The voiceful streets, the plaudit-echoing halls,<br>And prayer and hymn borne heavenward from St. Paul's!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How felt the land in every part<br>The strong throb of a nation's heart,<br>As its great leader gave, with reverent awe,<br>His pledge to Union, Liberty, and Law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That pledge the heavens above him heard,<br>That vow the sleep of centuries stirred;<br>In world-wide wonder listening peoples bent<br>Their gaze on Freedom's great experiment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could it succeed? Of honor sold<br>And hopes deceived all history told.<br>Above the wrecks that strewed the mournful past,<br>Was the long dream of ages true at last?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thank God! the people's choice was just,<br>The one man equal to his trust,<br>Wise beyond lore, and without weakness good,<br>Calm in the strength of flawless rectitude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His rule of justice, order, peace,<br>Made possible the world's release;<br>Taught prince and serf that power is but a trust,<br>And rule, alone, which serves the ruled, is just;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That Freedom generous is, but strong<br>In hate of fraud and selfish wrong,<br>Pretence that turns her holy truths to lies,<br>And lawless license masking in her guise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Land of his love! with one glad voice<br>Let thy great sisterhood rejoice;<br>A century's suns o'er thee have risen and set,<br>And, God be praised, we are one nation yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still we trust the years to be<br>Shall prove his hope was destiny,<br>Leaving our flag, with all its added stars,<br>Unrent by faction and unstained by wars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! where with patient toil he nursed<br>And trained the new-set plant at first,<br>The widening branches of a stately tree<br>Stretch from the sunrise to the sunset sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in its broad and sheltering shade,<br>Sitting with none to make afraid,<br>Were we now silent, through each mighty limb,<br>The winds of heaven would sing the praise of him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our first and best!--his ashes lie<br>Beneath his own Virginian sky.<br>Forgive, forget, O true and just and brave,<br>The storm that swept above thy sacred grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, ever in the awful strife<br>And dark hours of the nation's life,<br>Through the fierce tumult pierced his warning word,<br>Their father's voice his erring children heard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The change for which he prayed and sought<br>In that sharp agony was wrought;<br>No partial interest draws its alien line<br>'Twixt North and South, the cypress and the pine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One people now, all doubt beyond,<br>His name shall be our Union-bond;<br>We lift our hands to Heaven, and here and now.<br>Take on our lips the old Centennial vow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For rule and trust must needs be ours;<br>Chooser and chosen both are powers<br>Equal in service as in rights; the claim<br>Of Duty rests on each and all the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then let the sovereign millions, where<br>Our banner floats in sun and air,<br>From the warm palm-lands to Alaska's cold,<br>Repeat with us the pledge a century old?</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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Lay green the fields by Freedom won;
And severed sections, weary of debates,
Joined hands at last and were United States.

O City sitting by the Sea
How proud the day that dawned on thee,
When the new era, lo..."></div>
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