<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Welcome To The Nations</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PHILADELPHIA, JULY 4, 1876</div><div style="margin:10px 0">BRIGHT on the banners of lily and rose<br>Lo! the last sun of our century sets!<br>Wreathe the black cannon that scowled on our foes,<br>All but her friendships the nation forgets<br>All but her friends and their welcome forgets!<br>These are around her; but where are her foes?<br>Lo, while the sun of her century sets,<br>Peace with her garlands of lily and rose!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Welcome! a shout like the war trumpet's swell<br>Wakes the wild echoes that slumber around<br>Welcome! it quivers from Liberty's bell;<br>Welcome! the walls of her temple resound!<br>Hark! the gray walls of her temple resound<br>Fade the far voices o'er hillside and dell;<br>Welcome! still whisper the echoes around;<br>Welcome I still trembles on Liberty's bell!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thrones of the continents! isles of the sea<br>Yours are the garlands of peace we entwine;<br>Welcome, once more, to the land of the free,<br>Shadowed alike by the pahn and the pine;<br>Softly they murmur, the palm and the pine,<br>'Hushed is our strife, in the land of the free';<br>Over your children their branches entwine,<br>Thrones of the continents! isles of the sea!</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=472652" data-title="Welcome To The Nations de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="PHILADELPHIA, JULY 4, 1876 BRIGHT on the banners of lily and rose Lo! the last sun of our century sets! Wreathe the black cannon that scowled on our foes, All but her friendships the nation forgets All but her friends and their welcome forgets! T..."></div> </div> </div>

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