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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472127" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Look What You Did, Christopher!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fourteen hundred and ninety-two,<br>Someone sailed the ocean blue.<br>Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain<br>For a business trip on the bounding main,<br>And to prove to the people, by actual test,<br>You could get to the East by sailing West.<br>Somebody said, Sail on! Sail on!<br>And studied China and China's lingo,<br>And cried from the bow, There's China now!<br>And promptly bumped into San Domingo.<br>Somebody murmured, Oh dear, oh dear!<br>I've discovered the Western Hemisphere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that, you may think, my friends, was that.<br>But it wasn't. Not by a fireman's hat.<br>Well enough wasn't left alone,<br>And Columbus was only a cornerstone.<br>There came the Spaniards,<br>There came the Greeks,<br>There came the Pilgrims in leather breeks.<br>There came the Dutch,<br>And the Poles and Swedes,<br>The Persians, too,<br>And perhaps the Medes,<br>The Letts, the Lapps, and the Lithuanians,<br>Regal Russians, and ripe Roumanians.<br>There came the French<br>And there came the Finns,<br>And the Japanese<br>With their formal grins.<br>The Tartars came,<br>And the Terrible Turks -<br>In a word, humanity shot the works.<br>And the country that should have been Cathay<br>Decided to be<br>The U.S.A.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that, you may think, my friends, was that.<br>But it wasn't. Not by a fireman's hat.<br>Christopher C. was the cornerstone,<br>And well enough wasn't left alone.<br>For those who followed<br>When he was through,<br>They burned to discover something, too.<br>Somebody, bored with rural scenery,<br>Went to work and invented machinery,<br>While a couple of other mental giants<br>Got together<br>And thought up Science.<br>Platinum blondes<br>(They were once peroxide),<br>Peruvian bonds<br>And carbon monoxide,<br>Tax evaders<br>And Vitamin A,<br>Vice crusaders,<br>And tattletale gray -<br>These, with many another phobia,<br>We owe to that famous Twelfth of Octobia.<br>O misery, misery, mumble and moan!<br>Someone invented the telephone,<br>And interrupted a nation's slumbers,<br>Ringing wrong but similar numbers.<br>Someone devised the silver screen<br>And the intimate Hollywood magazine,<br>And life is a Hades<br>Of clicking cameras,<br>And foreign ladies<br>Behaving amorous.<br>Gags have erased<br>Amusing dialog,<br>As gas has replaced<br>The crackling firelog.<br>All that glitters is sold as gold,<br>And our daily diet grows odder and odder,<br>And breakfast foods are dusty and cold -<br>It's a wise child<br>That knows its fodder.<br>Someone invented the automobile,<br>And good Americans took the wheel<br>To view American rivers and rills<br>And justly famous forests and hills -<br>But someone equally enterprising<br>Had invented billboard advertising.<br>You linger at home<br>In dark despair,<br>And wistfully try the electric air.<br>You hope against hope for a quiz imperial,<br>And what do they give you?<br>A doctor serial.<br>Oh, Columbus was only a cornerstone,<br>And well enough wasn't left alone,<br>For the Inquisition was less tyrannical<br>Than the iron rules of an age mechanical,<br>Which, because of an error in '92,<br>Are clamped like corsets on me and you,<br>While Children of Nature we'd be today<br>If San Domingo<br>Had been Cathay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that, you may think, my friends, is that.<br>But it isn't - not by a fireman's hat.<br>The American people,<br>With grins jocose,<br>Always survive the fatal dose.<br>And though our systems are slightly wobbly,<br>We'll fool the doctor this time, probly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ogden+Nash">Ogden Nash</a><div class=q>
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