<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472498" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One Country</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ONE country! Treason's writhing asp<br>Struck madly at her girdle's clasp,<br>And Hatred wrenched with might and main<br>To rend its welded links in twain,<br>While Mammon hugged his golden calf<br>Content to take one broken half,<br>While thankless churls stood idly by<br>And heard unmoved a nation's cry!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One country! 'Nay,'--the tyrant crew<br>Shrieked from their dens,--'it shall be two!<br>Ill bodes to us this monstrous birth,<br>That scowls on all the thrones of earth,<br>Too broad yon starry cluster shines,<br>Too proudly tower the New-World pines,<br>Tear down the 'banner of the free,'<br>And cleave their land from sea to sea!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One country still, though foe and 'friend'<br>Our seamless empire strove to rend;<br>Safe! safe' though all the fiends of hell<br>Join the red murderers' battle-yell!<br>What though the lifted sabres gleam,<br>The cannons frown by shore and stream,--<br>The sabres clash, the cannons thrill,<br>In wild accord, One country still!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One country! in her stress and strain<br>We heard the breaking of a chain!<br>Look where the conquering Nation swings<br>Her iron flail,--its shivered rings!<br>Forged by the rebels' crimson hand,<br>That bolt of wrath shall scourge the land<br>Till Peace proclaims on sea and shore<br>One Country now and evermore!</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472498" data-title="One Country de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="ONE country! Treason's writhing asp Struck madly at her girdle's clasp, And Hatred wrenched with might and main To rend its welded links in twain, While Mammon hugged his golden calf Content to take one broken half, While thankless churls stood id..."></div> </div> </div>

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