<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538083" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Twenty-Second Of December</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wild was the day; the wintry sea<br>Moaned sadly on New-England's strand,<br>When first the thoughtful and the free,<br>Our fathers, trod the desert land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They little thought how pure a light,<br>With years, should gather round that day;<br>How love should keep their memories bright,<br>How wide a realm their sons should sway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Green are their bays; but greener still<br>Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed,<br>And regions, now untrod, shall thrill<br>With reverence when their names are breathed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till where the sun, with softer fires,<br>Looks on the vast Pacific's sleep,<br>The children of the pilgrim sires<br>This hallowed day like us shall keep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cullen+Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</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=538083" data-title="The Twenty-Second Of December de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New-England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day; How love should keep..."></div> </div> </div>

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