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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Song OF The Cities</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BOMBAY<br> <br>Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen<br> Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands --<br>A thousand mills roar through me where I glean<br> All races from all lands.<br> <br> <br> CALCUTTA<br> <br>Me the Sea-captain loved, the River built,<br> Wealth sought and Kings adventured life to hold.<br>Hail, England! I am Asia -- Power on silt,<br> Death in my hands, but Gold!<br> <br> <br> MADRAS<br> <br>Clive kissed me on the mouth and eyes and brow,<br> Wonderful kisses, so that I became<br>Crowned above Queens -- a withered beldame now,<br> Brooding on ancient fame.<br> <br> <br> RANGOON<br> <br>Hail, Mother! Do they call me rich in trade?<br> Little care I, but hear the shorn priest drone,<br>And watch my silk-clad lovers, man by maid,<br> Laugh 'neath my Shwe Dagon.<br> <br> <br> SINGAPORE<br> <br>Hail, Mother! East and West must seek my aid<br> Ere the spent gear may dare the ports afar.<br>The second doorway of the wide world's trade<br> Is mine to loose or bar.<br> <br> <br> HONG-KONG<br> <br>Hail, Mother! Hold me fast; my Praya sleeps<br> Under innumerable keels to-day.<br>Yet guard (and landward), or to-morrow sweeps<br> Thy war-ships down the bay!<br> <br> <br> HALIFAX<br> <br>Into the mist my guardian prows put forth,<br> Behind the mist my virgin ramparts lie,<br>The Warden of the Honour of the North,<br> Sleepless and veiled am I!<br> <br> <br> QUEBEC AND MONTREAL<br> <br>Peace is our portion. Yet a whisper rose,<br> Foolish and causeless, half in jest, half hate.<br>Now wake we and remember mighty blows,<br> And, fearing no man, wait!<br> <br> <br> VICTORIA<br> <br>From East to West the circling word has passed,<br> Till West is East beside our land-locked blue;<br>From East to West the tested chain holds fast,<br> The well-forged link rings true!<br> <br> <br> CAPE TOWN<br> <br>Hail! Snatched and bartered oft from hand to hand,<br> I dream my dream, by rock and heath and pine,<br>Of Empire to the northward. Ay, one land<br> From Lion's Head to Line!<br> <br> <br> MELBOURNE<br> <br>Greeting! Nor fear nor favour won us place,<br> Got between greed of gold and dread of drouth,<br>Loud-voiced and reckless as the wild tide-race<br> That whips our harbour-mouth!<br> <br> <br> SYDNEY<br> <br>Greeting! My birth-stain have I turned to good;<br> Forcing strong wills perverse to steadfastness:<br>The first flush of the tropics in my blood,<br> And at my feet Success!<br> <br> <br> BRISBANE<br> <br>The northern stirp beneath the southern skies --<br> I build a Nation for an Empire's need,<br>Suffer a little, and my land shall rise,<br> Queen over lands indeed!<br> <br> <br> HOBART<br> <br>Man's love first found me; man's hate made me Hell;<br> For my babes' sake I cleansed those infamies.<br>Earnest for leave to live and labour well,<br> God flung me peace and ease.<br> <br> <br> AUCKLAND<br> <br>Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart --<br> On us, on us the unswerving season smiles,<br>Who wonder 'mid our fern why men depart<br> To seek the Happy Isles!</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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Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen
 Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands --
A thousand mills roar through me where I glean
 All races from all lands.
 
 
 CALCUTTA
 
Me the Sea-captain loved, the River built,
 Wealth sought and King..."></div>
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