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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472396" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brother Jonathan's Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE has gone,-- she has left us in passion and pride,--<br> Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side!<br> She has torn her own star from our firmament's glow,<br> And turned on her brother the face of a foe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun,<br> We can never forget that our hearts have been one,--<br> Our foreheads both sprinkled in Liberty's name,<br> From the fountain of blood with the finger of flame!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> You were always too ready to fire at a touch;<br> But we said, &quot;She is hasty,-- she does not mean much.&quot;<br> We have scowled, when you uttered some turbulent threat;<br> But Friendship still whispered, &quot;Forgive and forget!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Has our love all died out? Have its altars grown cold?<br> Has the curse come at last which the fathers foretold?<br> Then Nature must teach us the strength of the chain<br> That her petulant children would sever in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their spoil,<br> Till the harvest grows black as it rots in the soil,<br> Till the wolves and the catamounts troop from their caves,<br> And the shark tracks the pirate, the lord of the waves:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In vain is the strife! When its fury is past,<br> Their fortunes must flow in one channel at last,<br> As the torrents that rush from the mountains of snow<br> Roll mingled in peace through the valleys below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky:<br> Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!<br> Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,<br> The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun,<br> There are battles with Fate that can never be won!<br> The star-flowering banner must never be furled,<br> For its blossoms of light are the hope of the world!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Go, then, our rash sister! afar and aloof,<br> Run wild in the sunshine away from our roof;<br> But when your heart aches and your feet have grown sore,<br> Remember the pathway that leads to our door!</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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 Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side!
 She has torn her own star from our firmament's glow,
 And turned on her brother the face of a foe!

 Oh, Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun,..."></div>
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