Poem ~ Independence Day


	Poem ~ Independence Day

skwirlinator

10-1-2006 7:21 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/59418728-d599-493e-881c-ead133724fda/85C32918-9C0E-4382-B6D9-89DE65303DF8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ellenbailey.com/poems/ellen_116.htm" href="http://www.ellenbailey.com/poems/ellen_116.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ellenbailey.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ellenbailey.com/poems/ellen_116.htm"><H1>Independence Day</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ellenbailey.com/poems/ellen_116.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="center" class="poemtext">In the year of 1776
That paper was decreed -
They were tired of oppression<BR /><DIV>
            And wanted to be freed</DIV>
            
They wrote a Declaration
So the whole world would see -
This was, "the home of the brave<BR /><DIV>
            And the land of the free"</DIV>
            
They signed that piece of parchment
The leaders of this land -
Knowing, divided they would fall<BR /><DIV>
            But, together they could stand</DIV>
            
A new world lay before them
Untamed from shore to shore -
They swore the would protect it<BR /><DIV>
            If it meant going to war</DIV>
            
Battles have been fought -
And many lives have been lost -
So sad something so basic<BR /><DIV>
            Has such a high, high cost</DIV>
            
'Seems freedom is a luxury
There's some would bind us all -
Like then, together, we can stand<BR /><DIV>
            But divided, we will fall</DIV>
            
More than two hundred years
Have past by since that day
That each of us celebrate<BR /><DIV>
            In our own different way</DIV>
            
We should be proud and thankful
Pay our share of the cost -
Not take freedom for granted
For it easily could be lost </TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/85C32918-9C0E-4382-B6D9-89DE65303DF8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>