<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519299" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stanzas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up go the beautiful and world-watch'd stars,<br>Lifting the glory of America,<br>'Mong the red flags which gleam through masts<br>and spars<br>Crowded in gay magnificence, to-day,<br>Where three score years ago, none found their way,<br>Of all the ships which left old England's shore:<br>Up goes the starry flag, on waves which lay<br>In undiscover'd solitude, when o'er<br>America those stars first glanc'd from fields of gore!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In friendly beauty floats that free-fix'd flag<br>'Gainst England's glowing ensign! I could dream<br>Of times, when the wild bush, each uncouth crag,<br>And precipice, beside this haven-stream,<br>Shall yield to one vast city; and the gleam<br>Of new-born banners shall illumine it;<br>And these alike be foreign in the beam<br>Of Australasia's morning. Heaven admit<br>One patriot spirit here, and Freedom's fires are lit!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not ever shall the exile's toil be all<br>To bring the harvest of this infant land;<br>The children of the buried exile shall<br>Behold a mother's beauty, in the bland<br>Aspect of Nature, on their native strand:<br>And Freedom then shall choose a dwelling here.<br>Oh! Happy epoch, when the 'great and grand,'<br>The memory of whose deeds mankind revere,<br>Number a Washington, from the world's Austral sphere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Henry+Parkes">Sir Henry Parkes</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=519299" data-title="Stanzas de Sir Henry Parkes" data-description="Up go the beautiful and world-watch'd stars, Lifting the glory of America, 'Mong the red flags which gleam through masts and spars Crowded in gay magnificence, to-day, Where three score years ago, none found their way, Of all the ships which left ..."></div> </div> </div>

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