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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472382" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At The Banquet To the Japanese Embassy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AUGUST 2, 1872</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WE welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!<br>The voice of the many sounds feebly through one;<br>Ah! would 't were a voice of more musical tone,<br>But the dog-star is here, and the song-birds have flown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what shall I sing that can cheat you of smiles,<br>Ye heralds of peace from the Orient isles?<br>If only the Jubilee--Why did you wait?<br>You are welcome, but oh! you're a little too late!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have greeted our brothers of Ireland and France,<br>Round the fiddle of Strauss we have joined in the dance,<br>We have lagered Herr Saro, that fine-looking man,<br>And glorified Godfrey, whose name it is Dan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a pity! we've missed it and you've missed it too,<br>We had a day ready and waiting for you;<br>We'd have shown you--provided, of course, you had come--<br>You 'd have heard--no, you would n't, because it was dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then the great organ! The chorus's shout<br>Like the mixture teetotalers call 'Cold without'--<br>A mingling of elements, strong, but not sweet;<br>And the drum, just referred to, that 'couldn't be beat.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shrines of our pilgrims are not like your own,<br>Where white Fusiyama lifts proudly its cone,<br>(The snow-mantled mountain we see on the fan<br>That cools our hot cheeks with a breeze from Japan.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ours the wide temple where worship is free<br>As the wind of the prairie, the wave of the sea;<br>You may build your own altar wherever you will,<br>For the roof of that temple is over you still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One dome overarches the star-bannered shore;<br>You may enter the Pope's or the Puritan's door,<br>Or pass with the Buddhist his gateway of bronze,<br>For a priest is but Man, be he bishop or bonze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the lesson we teach with the sword and the pen<br>Is to all of God's children, 'We also are men!<br>If you wrong us we smart, if you prick us we bleed,<br>If you love us, no quarrel with color or creed!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'll find us a well-meaning, free-spoken crowd,<br>Good-natured enough, but a little too loud,--<br>To be sure, there is always a bit of a row<br>When we choose our Tycoon, and especially now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'll take it all calmly,--we want you to see<br>What a peaceable fight such a contest can be,<br>And of one thing be certain, however it ends,<br>You will find that our voters have chosen your friends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If the horse that stands saddled is first in the race,<br>You will greet your old friend with the weed in his face;<br>And if the white hat and the White House agree,<br>You'll find H. G. really as loving as he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But oh, what a pity--once more I must say--<br>That we could not have joined in a 'Japanese day'!<br>Such greeting we give you to-night as we can;<br>Long life to our brothers and friends of Japan!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lord of the mountain looks down from his crest<br>As the banner of morning unfurls in the West;<br>The Eagle was always the friend of the Sun;<br>You are welcome!--The song of the cage-bird is done.</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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WE welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!
The voice of the many sounds feebly through one;
Ah! would 't were a voice of more musical tone,
But the dog-star is here, and the song-birds have flown.

And what shall I sing that can..."></div>
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