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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472650" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Welcome To The Chicago Commercial Club</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">January 14, 1880</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHICAGO sounds rough to the maker of verse;<br>One comfort we have--Cincinnati sounds worse;<br>If we only were licensed to say Chicago!<br>But Worcester and Webster won't let us, you know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No matter, we songsters must sing as we can;<br>We can make some nice couplets with Lake Michigan,<br>And what more resembles a nightingale's voice,<br>Than the oily trisyllable, sweet Illinois?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your waters are fresh, while our harbor is salt,<br>But we know you can't help it--it is n't your fault;<br>Our city is old and your city is new,<br>But the railroad men tell us we're greener than you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have seen our gilt dome, and no doubt you've been told<br>That the orbs of the universe round it are rolled;<br>But I'll own it to you, and I ought to know best,<br>That this is n't quite true of all stars of the West.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'll go to Mount Auburn,--we'll show you the track,--<br>And can stay there,--unless you prefer to come back;<br>And Bunker's tall shaft you can climb if you will,<br>But you'll puff like a paragraph praising a pill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You must see--but you have seen--our old Faneuil Hall,<br>Our churches, our school-rooms, our sample-rooms, all;<br>And, perhaps, though the idiots must have their jokes,<br>You have found our good people much like other folks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are cities by rivers, by lakes, and by seas,<br>Each as full of itself as a cheese-mite of cheese;<br>And a city will brag as a game-cock will crow<br>Don't your cockerels at home--just a little, you know?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we'll crow for you now--here's a health to the boys,<br>Men, maidens, and matrons of fair Illinois,<br>And the rainbow of friendship that arches its span<br>From the green of the sea to the blue Michigan!</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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CHICAGO sounds rough to the maker of verse;
One comfort we have--Cincinnati sounds worse;
If we only were licensed to say Chicago!
But Worcester and Webster won't let us, you know.

No matter, we songsters must sing as we can;
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