“O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath —
America will be!”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
Let America Be America Again (1935)
“O Beautiful, for smoggy skies, insecticided grain
for strip-mined mountains' majesty, above the asphalt plain
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee
and hides the pines, with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”
Class Clown (1972)
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Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
X, 23
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: Let this always be plain to thee, that this piece of land is like any other; and that all things here are the same with all things on the top of a mountain, or on the sea-shore, or wherever thou chooses to be. For thou wilt find just what Plato says, Dwelling within the walls of the city as in a shepherd's fold on a mountain.
“As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) American clergyman and poet
"The Brief Chance Encounter", p. 196.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition
“Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)
