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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539602" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Greenland's Icy Mountains</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand,<br>And wondrously created by the Almighty's command;<br>And the works of the Almighty there's few can understand:<br>Who knows but it might be a part of Fairyland? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because there are churches of ice, and houses glittering like glass,<br>And for scenic grandeur there's nothing can it surpass,<br>Besides there's monuments and spires, also ruins,<br>Which serve for a safe retreat from the wild bruins. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there's icy crags and precipices, also beautiful waterfalls,<br>And as the stranger gazes thereon, his heart it appals<br>With a mixture of wonder, fear, and delight,<br>Till at last he exclaims, Oh! what a wonderful sight! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The icy mountains they're higher than a brig's topmast,<br>And the stranger in amazement stands aghast<br>As he beholds the water flowing off the melted ice<br>Adown the mountain sides, that he cries out, Oh! how nice! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such sights as these are truly magnificent to be seen,<br>Only that the mountain tops are white instead of green,<br>And rents and caverns in them, the same as on a rugged mountain side,<br>And suitable places, in my opinion, for mermaids to reside. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes these icy mountains suddenly topple o'er<br>With a wild and rumbling hollow-starting roar;<br>And new peaks and cliffs rise up out of the sea,<br>While great cataracts of uplifted brine pour down furiously. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those that can witness such an awful sight<br>Can only gaze thereon in solemn silence and delight,<br>And the most Godfearless man that hath this region trod<br>Would be forced to recognise the power and majesty of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! how awful and grand it must be on a sunshiny day<br>To see one of these icy mountains in pieces give way!<br>While, crack after crack, it falls with a mighty crash<br>Flat upon the sea with a fearful splash. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the breaking up of these mountains they roar like thunder,<br>Which causes the stranger no doubt to wonder;<br>Also the Esquimaux of Greenland betimes will stand<br>And gaze on the wondrous work of the Almighty so grand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When these icy mountains are falling, the report is like big guns,<br>And the glittering brilliancy of them causes mock-suns,<br>And around them there's connected a beautiful ring of light,<br>And as the stranger looks thereon, it fills his heart with delight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! think on the danger of seafaring men<br>If any of these mighty mountains where falling on them;<br>Alas! they would be killed ere the hand of man could them save<br>And, poor creatures, very likely find a watery grave! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis most beautiful to see and hear the whales whistling and blowing,<br>And the sailors in their small boats quickly after them rowing,<br>While the whales keep lashing the water all their might<br>With their mighty tails, left and right. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In winter there's no sunlight there night or day,<br>Which, no doubt, will cause the time to pass tediously away,<br>And cause the Esquimaux to long for the light of day,<br>So as they will get basking themselves in the sun's bright array. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In summer there is perpetual sunlight,<br>Which fill the Esquimaux's hearts with delight;<br>And is seen every day and night in the blue sky,<br>Which makes the scenery appear most beautiful to the eye. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">During summer and winter there the land is covered with snow,<br>Which sometimes must fill the Esquimaux' hearts with woe<br>As they traverse fields of ice, ten or fifteen feet thick,<br>And with cold, no doubt, their hearts will be touched to the quick. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And let those that read or hear this feel thankful to God<br>That the icy fields of Greenland they have never trod;<br>Especially while seated around the fireside on a cold winter night,<br>Let them think of the cold and hardships Greenland sailors have to fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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And wondrously created by the Almighty's command;
And the works of the Almighty there's few can understand:
Who knows but it might be a part of Fairyland? 

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