<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472651" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Welcome To The Grand Duke Alexis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MUSIC HALL, DECEMBER 6, 1871</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sung to the Russian national air by the children of the public schools.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHADOWED so long by the storm-cloud of danger,<br>Thou whom the prayers of an empire defend,<br>Welcome, thrice welcome! but not as a stranger,<br>Come to the nation that calls thee its friend!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bleak are our shores with the blasts of December,<br>Fettered and chill is the rivulet's flow;<br>Throbbing and warm are the hearts that remember<br>Who was our friend when the world was our foe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look on the lips that are smiling to greet thee,<br>See the fresh flowers that a people has strewn<br>Count them thy sisters and brothers that meet thee;<br>Guest of the Nation, her heart is thine own!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fires of the North, in eternal communion,<br>Blend your broad flashes with evening's bright star!<br>God bless the Empire that loves the Great Union;<br>Strength to her people! Long life to the Czar!</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=472651" data-title="Welcome To The Grand Duke Alexis de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="MUSIC HALL, DECEMBER 6, 1871 Sung to the Russian national air by the children of the public schools. SHADOWED so long by the storm-cloud of danger, Thou whom the prayers of an empire defend, Welcome, thrice welcome! but not as a stranger, Come t..."></div> </div> </div>

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