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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510854" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Philadelphia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning,<br>You mustn't take my stories for a guide.<br>There's little left, indeed, of the city you will read of,<br>And all the folk I write about have died.<br>Now few will understand if you mention Talleyrand,<br>Or remember what his cunning and his skill did;<br>And the cabmen at the wharf do not know Count Zinzendorf,<br>Nor the Church in Philadelphia he builded.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is gone, gone, gone with lost Atlantis,<br>(Never say I didn't give you warning). <br>In Seventeen Ninety-three 'twas there for all to see,<br>But it's not in Philadelphia this morning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning,<br>You mustn't go by anything I've said.<br>Bob Bicknell's Southern Stages have been laid aside for ages,<br>But the Limited will take you there instead.<br>Toby Hirte can't be seen at One Hundred and Eighteen<br>North Second Street--no matter when you call;<br>And I fear you'll search in vain for the wash-house down the lane<br>Where Pharaoh played the fiddle at the ball.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is gone, gone, gone with Thebes the Golden,<br>(Never say I didn't give you warning).<br>In Seventeen Ninety-four 'twas a famous dancing floor--<br>But it's not in Philadelphia this morning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning,<br>You must telegraph for rooms at some Hotel.<br>You needn't try your luck at Epply's or &quot;The Buck,&quot;<br>Though the Father of his Country liked them well.<br>It is not the slightest use to inquire for Adam Goos,<br>Or to ask where Pastor Meder has removed--so<br>You must treat as out of date the story I relate<br>Of the Church in Philadelphia he loved so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is gone, gone, gone with Martin Luther<br>(Never say I didn't give you warning)<br>In Seventeen Ninety-five he was, (rest his soul!) alive.<br>But he's not in Philadelphia this morning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you're off to Philadelphia this morning,<br>And wish to prove the truth of what I say,<br>I pledge my word you'll find the pleasant land behind<br>Unaltered since Red Jacket rode that way.<br>Still the pine-woods scent the noon; still the catbird sings his<br>tune;<br>Still autumn sets the maple-forest blazing;<br>Still the grape-vine through the dusk flings her soul-compelling<br>musk;<br>Still the fire-flies in the corn make night amazing!<br>They are there, there, there with Earth immortal<br>( Citizens, I give you friendly warning )<br>The thins that truly last when men and times have passed,<br>They are all in Pennsylvania this morning!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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You mustn't take my stories for a guide.
There's little left, indeed, of the city you will read of,
And all the folk I write about have died.
Now few will understand if you mention Talleyrand,
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