<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420857" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Pennsylvania</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O STATE prayer-founded! never hung<br>Such choice upon a people's tongue,<br>Such power to bless or ban,<br>As that which makes thy whisper Fate,<br>For which on thee the centuries wait,<br>And destinies of man!<br>Across thy Alleghanian chain,<br>With groanings from a land in pain,<br>The west-wind finds its way:<br>Wild-wailing from Missouri's flood<br>The crying of thy children's blood<br>Is in thy ears to-day!<br>And unto thee in Freedom's hour<br>Of sorest need God gives the power<br>To ruin or to save;<br>To wound or heal, to blight or bless<br>With fertile field or wilderness,<br>A free home or a grave!<br>Then let thy virtue match the crime,<br>Rise to a level with the time;<br>And, if a son of thine<br>Betray or tempt thee, Brutus-like<br>For Fatherland and Freedom strike<br>As Justice gives the sign.<br>Wake, sleeper, from thy dream of ease,<br>The great occasion's forelock seize;<br>And let the north-wind strong,<br>And golden leaves of autumn, be<br>Thy coronal of Victory<br>And thy triumphal song.</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=420857" data-title="To Pennsylvania de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="O STATE prayer-founded! never hung Such choice upon a people's tongue, Such power to bless or ban, As that which makes thy whisper Fate, For which on thee the centuries wait, And destinies of man! Across thy Alleghanian chain, With groanings from ..."></div> </div> </div>

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