<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=545843" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Athens Beckons!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not just a fairy tale<br>But true and very much real<br>In the history of long long ago<br>There flourished the glory of Athens<br>And the golden age of Pericles<br>Just not a city of scenic beauty<br>But an ideal and a model city<br>The perfect symbol of democracy<br>And no special room for aristocracy<br>Devoted to the cause of Excellency<br>Surely a seat of great wisdom<br>Where people could enjoy utmost freedom<br>By digging deep into the repository<br>No where is found such place in all history<br>The mother of all epistemology<br>Where Socrates could write his Apology<br>When the justice shone on all the houses<br>Even the poor could smile as the virtuous<br>Bloomed on this cradle of fine culture<br>Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides<br>Could nourish the roots of literature<br> Herodotus and Thucydides <br>Two great chroniclers of matchless wisdom<br>Who took away from history all its boredom<br>Whoever said that history is dead<br>Isn't aware of the edifice on which we stand<br>For nations like Athens once mighty and grand<br>Connect us to history's unending strand!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rekha+Sathya">Rekha Sathya</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=545843" data-title="Athens Beckons! de Rekha Sathya" data-description="It is not just a fairy tale But true and very much real In the history of long long ago There flourished the glory of Athens And the golden age of Pericles Just not a city of scenic beauty But an ideal and a model city The perfect symbol of democr..."></div> </div> </div>

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