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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427876" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Flag</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more dear to me<br>Than the blood that thrills in my bosom its earnest of liberty;<br>And dear are the stars it harbors in its sunny field of blue<br>As the hope of a further heaven that lights all our dim lives through.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now should my guests be merry, the house is in holiday guise,<br>Looking out, through its burnished windows like a score of welcoming eyes.<br>Come hither, my brothers who wander in saintliness and in sin!<br>Come hither, ye pilgrims of Nature! my heart doth invite you in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My win is not of the choicest, yet bears it an honest brand;<br>And the bread that I bid you lighten I break with no sparing hand;<br>But pause, ere you pass to taste it, one act must accomplished be:<br>Salute the flag in its virtue, before ye sit down with me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed:<br>Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed;<br>'Twas red with the blood of freemen, and white with the fear of the foe, <br>And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come hither, thou son of my mother! we were reared in the selfsame arms;<br>Thou hast many a pleasant gesture, thy mind hath its fights and charms,<br>But my heart is as stern to question as mine eyes are of sorrows full:<br>Salute the flag in its virtue, or pass on where others rule.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou lord of a thousand acres, with heaps of uncounted gold,<br>The steeds of thy stall are haughty, thy lackeys cunning and bold:<br>I envy no jot of thy splendor, I rail at thy follies none:<br>Salute the flag in its virtue, or leave my poor house alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair lady with silken trappings, high waving thy stainless plume,<br>We welcome thee to our numbers, a flower of costliest bloom:<br>Let a hundred maids live widowed to furnish thy bridal bed;<br>But pause where the flag doth question, and bend thy triumphant head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take down now your flaunting banner, for a scout comes breathless and pale,<br>With the terror death upon him; of failure is all his tale:<br>'They have fled while the flag waved o'er them! they have turned to the foe their back!<br>They are scattered, pursued, and slaughtered! the fields are all rout and wrack!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pass hence, then, the friends I gathered, a goodly company!<br>All ye that have manhood in you, go, perish for Liberty!<br>But I and the babes God gave me will wait with uplifted hearts,<br>With the firm smile ready to kindle, and the will to perform our parts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the last true heart lies bloodless, when the fierce and the false have won, <br>I'll press in turn to my bosom each daughter and either son;<br>Bid them loose the flag from its bearings, and we'll lay us down to rest<br>With the glory of home about us, and its freedom locked in our breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Julia+Ward+Howe">Julia Ward Howe</a><div class=q>
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