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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539609" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jottings of New York</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, mighty city of New York, you are wonderful to behold--<br>Your buildings are magnificent-- the truth be it told--<br>They were the only thing that seemed to arrest my eye,<br>Because many of them are thirteen storeys high;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for Central Park, it is lovely to be seen--<br>Especially in the summer season when its shrubberies are green<br>And the Burns Statue is there to be seen,<br>Surrounded by trees on the beautiful sward so green;<br>Also Shakespeare and the immortal Sir Walter Scott,<br>Which by Scotchmen and Englishmen will never be forgot. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are people on the Sabbath day in thousands resort--<br>All lov'd, in conversation, and eager for sport;<br>And some of them viewing the wild beasts there,<br>While the joyous shouts of children does rend the air--<br>And also beautiful black swans, I do declare. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there's beautiful boats to be seen there,<br>And joyous shouts of children does rend the air,<br>While the boats sail along with them o'er Lohengrin Lake,<br>And fare is 5 cents for children, and adults ten is all they take. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there's also summer-house shades, and merry-go-rounds<br>And with the merry laughter of the children the Park resounds,<br>During the live-long Sabbath day<br>Enjoying themselves at the merry-go-round play. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then there's the elevated railroads abont five storeys high,<br>Which the inhabitants can hear night and day passing by;<br>Of, such a mass of people there daily do throng--<br>No less than five 100,000 daily pass along;<br>And all along the city you can get for five cents--<br>And, believe me, among the passengers there's few discontent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the top of the houses are mostly all flat,<br>And in the warm weather the people gather to chat;<br>Besides, on the housetops they dry their clothes;<br>And, also, many people all night on the housetops repose. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And numerous ships end steamboats are there to be seen,<br>Sailing along the East River water, which is very green--<br>Which is certainly a most beautiful sight<br>To see them sailing o'er the smooth water day and night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for Brooklyn Bridge, it's a very great height,<br>And fills the stranger's heart with wonder at first sight;<br>And with all its loftiness I venture to say<br>It cannot surpass the new railway bridge of the Silvery Tay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there's also ten thousand rumsellers there--<br>Oh, wonderful to think of, I do declare!<br>To accommodate the people of New York therein,<br>And to encourage them to commit all sorts of sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on the Sabbath day ye will see many a man<br>Going for beer with a big tin can,<br>And seems proud to be seen carrying home the beer<br>To treat his neighbours and his family dear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then at night numbers of the people dance and sing,<br>Making the walls of their houses to ring<br>With their songs and dancing on Sabbath night,<br>Which I witnessed with disgust, and fled from the sight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And with regard to New York and the sights I did see--<br>Believe me, I never saw such sights in Dundee;<br>And the morning I sailed from the city of New York<br>My heart it felt as light as a cork.</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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Your buildings are magnificent-- the truth be it told--
They were the only thing that seemed to arrest my eye,
Because many of them are thirteen storeys high;

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