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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472380" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At The Banquet To The Chinese Embassy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AUGUST 21, 1868</div><div style="margin:10px 0">BROTHERS, whom we may not reach<br>Through the veil of alien speech,<br>Welcome! welcome! eyes can tell<br>What the lips in vain would spell,--<br>Words that hearts can understand,<br>Brothers from the Flowery Land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We, the evening's latest born,<br>Hail the children of the morn!<br>We, the new creation's birth,<br>Greet the lords of ancient earth,<br>From their storied walls and towers<br>Wandering to these tents of ours!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Land of wonders, fair Cathay,<br>Who long hast shunned the staring day,<br>Hid in mists of poet's dreams<br>By thy blue and yellow streams,--<br>Let us thy shadowed form behold,--<br>Teach us as thou didst of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Knowledge dwells with length of days;<br>Wisdom walks in ancient ways;<br>Thine the compass that could guide<br>A nation o'er the stormy tide,<br>Scourged by passions, doubts, and fears,<br>Safe through thrice a thousand years!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Looking from thy turrets gray<br>Thou hast seen the world's decay,--<br>Egypt drowning in her sands,--<br>Athens rent by robbers' hands,--<br>Rome, the wild barbarian's prey,<br>Like a storm-cloud swept away:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Looking from thy turrets gray<br>Still we see thee. Where are they?<br>And to I a new-born nation waits,<br>Sitting at the golden gates<br>That glitter by the sunset sea,--<br>Waits with outspread arms for thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Open wide, ye gates of gold,<br>To the Dragon's banner-fold!<br>Builders of the mighty wall,<br>Bid your mountain barriers fall!<br>So may the girdle of the sun.<br>Bind the East and West in one,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till Mount Shasta's breezes fan<br>The snowy peaks of Ta Sieue-Shan,--<br>Till Erie blends its waters blue<br>With the waves of Tung-Ting-Hu,--<br>Till deep Missouri lends its flow<br>To swell the rushing Hoang-Ho!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q>
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BROTHERS, whom we may not reach
Through the veil of alien speech,
Welcome! welcome! eyes can tell
What the lips in vain would spell,--
Words that hearts can understand,
Brothers from the Flowery Land!

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