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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477634" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Columbian Ode</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>FOUR hundred years ago a tangled waste<br>Lay sleeping on the west Atlantic's side;<br>Their devious ways the Old World's millions traced<br>Content, and loved, and labored, dared and died. <br>While students still believed the charts they conned,<br>And revelled in their thriftless ignorance,<br>Nor dreamed of other lands that lay beyond<br>Old Ocean's dense, indefinite expanse.<br>II.<br>BUT deep within her heart old Nature knew<br>That she had once arrayed, at Earth's behest,<br>Another offspring, fine and fair to view,—<br>The chosen suckling of the mother's breast.<br>The child was wrapped in vestments soft and fine,<br>Each fold a work of Nature's matchless art;<br>The mother looked on it with love divine,<br>And strained the loved one closely to her heart.<br>And there it lay, and with the warmth grew strong<br>And hearty, by the salt sea breezes fanned,<br>Till Time with mellowing touches passed along,<br>And changed the infant to a mighty land.<br>III.<br>BUT men knew naught of this, till there arose<br>That mighty mariner, the Genoese,<br>Who dared to try, in spite of fears and foes,<br>The unknown fortunes of unsounded seas.<br>O noblest of Italia's sons, thy bark<br>Went not alone into that shrouding night!<br>O dauntless darer of the rayless dark,<br>The world sailed with thee to eternal light!<br>The deer-haunts that with game were crowded then<br>To-day are tilled and cultivated lands;<br>The schoolhouse tow'rs where Bruin had his den,<br>And where the wigwam stood the chapel stands;<br>The place that nurtured men of savage mien<br>Now teems with men of Nature's noblest types;<br>Where moved the forest-foliage banner green,<br>Now flutters in the breeze the stars and stripes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q>
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FOUR hundred years ago a tangled waste
Lay sleeping on the west Atlantic's side;
Their devious ways the Old World's millions traced
Content, and loved, and labored, dared and died. 
While students still believed the charts they conned,
And reve..."></div>
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