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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529599" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bridge of Lodi.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When of tender mind and body <br> I was moved by minstrelsy, <br>And that strain &quot;The Bridge of Lodi&quot; <br> Brought a strange delight to me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">II </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the battle-breathing jingle <br> Of its forward-footing tune <br>I could see the armies mingle, <br> And the columns cleft and hewn </div><div style="margin:10px 0">III </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On that far-famed spot by Lodi <br> Where Napoleon clove his way <br>To his fame, when like a god he <br> Bent the nations to his sway. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hence the tune came capering to me <br> While I traced the Rhone and Po; <br>Nor could Milan's Marvel woo me <br> From the spot englamoured so. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">V </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to-day, sunlit and smiling, <br> Here I stand upon the scene, <br>With its saffron walls, dun tiling, <br> And its meads of maiden green, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even as when the trackway thundered <br> With the charge of grenadiers, <br>And the blood of forty hundred <br> Splashed its parapets and piers . . . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Any ancient crone I'd toady <br> Like a lass in young-eyed prime, <br>Could she tell some tale of Lodi <br> At that moving mighty time. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, I ask the wives of Lodi <br> For traditions of that day; <br>But alas! not anybody <br> Seems to know of such a fray. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IX </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they heed but transitory <br> Marketings in cheese and meat, <br>Till I judge that Lodi's story <br> Is extinct in Lodi's street. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">X </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet while here and there they thrid them <br> In their zest to sell and buy, <br>Let me sit me down amid them <br> And behold those thousands die . . . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">XI </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- Not a creature cares in Lodi <br> How Napoleon swept each arch, <br>Or where up and downward trod he, <br> Or for his memorial March! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">XII </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So that wherefore should I be here, <br> Watching Adda lip the lea, <br>When the whole romance to see here <br> Is the dream I bring with me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">XIII </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And why sing &quot;The Bridge of Lodi&quot; <br> As I sit thereon and swing, <br>When none shows by smile or nod he <br> Guesses why or what I sing? . . . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">XIV </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since all Lodi, low and head ones, <br> Seem to pass that story by, <br>It may be the Lodi-bred ones <br> Rate it truly, and not I. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">XV </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once engrossing Bridge of Lodi, <br> Is thy claim to glory gone? <br>Must I pipe a palinody, <br> Or be silent thereupon? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">XVI </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if here, from strand to steeple, <br> Be no stone to fame the fight, <br>Must I say the Lodi people <br> Are but viewing crime aright? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">XVII </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay; I'll sing &quot;The Bridge of Lodi&quot; - <br> That long-loved, romantic thing, <br>Though none show by smile or nod he <br> Guesses why and what I sing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a><div class=q>
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When of tender mind and body 
 I was moved by minstrelsy, 
And that strain &quot;The Bridge of Lodi&quot; 
 Brought a strange delight to me. 

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In the battle-breathing jingle 
 Of its forward-footing tune 
I could see the armies mingle, 
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