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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535069" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>O Star Of France</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O STAR of France!<br> The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,<br> Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,<br> Beseems to-day a wreck, driven by the gale--a mastless hulk;<br> And 'mid its teeming, madden'd, half-drown'd crowds,<br> Nor helm nor helmsman.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Dim, smitten star!<br> Orb not of France alone--pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,<br> The struggle and the daring--rage divine for liberty,<br> Of aspirations toward the far ideal--enthusiast's dreams of<br> brotherhood,    10<br> Of terror to the tyrant and the priest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Star crucified! by traitors sold!<br> Star panting o'er a land of death--heroic land!<br> Strange, passionate, mocking, frivolous land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Miserable! yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke<br> thee;<br> Thy unexampled woes and pangs have quell'd them all,<br> And left thee sacred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In that amid thy many faults, thou ever aimedest highly,<br> In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself, however great the<br> price,<br> In that thou surely wakedst weeping from thy drugg'd sleep, 20<br> In that alone, among thy sisters, thou, Giantess, didst rend the ones<br> that shamed thee,<br> In that thou couldst not, wouldst not, wear the usual chains,<br> This cross, thy livid face, thy pierced hands and feet,<br> The spear thrust in thy side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> O star! O ship of France, beat back and baffled long!<br> Bear up, O smitten orb! O ship, continue on!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Sure, as the ship of all, the Earth itself,<br> Product of deathly fire and turbulent chaos,<br> Forth from its spasms of fury and its poisons,<br> Issuing at last in perfect power and beauty,  30<br> Onward, beneath the sun, following its course,<br> So thee, O ship of France!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Finish'd the days, the clouds dispell'd,<br> The travail o'er, the long-sought extrication,<br> When lo! reborn, high o'er the European world,<br> (In gladness, answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting<br> ours, Columbia,)<br> Again thy star, O France--fair, lustrous star,<br> In heavenly peace, clearer, more bright than ever,<br> Shall beam immortal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q>
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 The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,
 Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,
 Beseems to-day a wreck, driven by the gale--a mastless hulk;
 And 'mid its teeming, madden'd, half-drown'd crowds,
 Nor helm no..."></div>
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