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Green Lady- America Dream

Food in a rag opens to the night air ireland's kind store aswage and to bear The people are anxious and families wait deliver your stories your knowledge your state The lady in green her might and her care Call to the people her torch and your share Come one and come all now again and again Freedom to all and your bretheren send Fog on horizon blast of the horn she pushes us on to new york we are born Our clothes and our suit cases battered and old alight and come hither and pavements of gold There brother and sister and God now awaits the great and the good and the clever she makes Progress and colour and hard work be aloud do well and reward and your fore fathers proud Here are the masses religion a plate The thatch of your old home a long gone relate Home now awaits in this new mixtured land Through hard toil or wager your new wealth commands

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 2/13/2012 10:19:00 AM
Hi Ian, though i'd check out your first on soup, not disappointed, like this.
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Date: 6/10/2011 4:52:00 AM
A warm welcome to PoetrySoup I offer to you Ian. I wish for you the best in your writing endeavors whatever they may be. May you find inspiration by reading some of the poetry written here by other poets. Read and comment on their's and they will return in kind. May the sun shine on you that you might find great joy in your life. Love and blessing always, Carol
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Date: 6/9/2011 5:58:00 PM
Creative and interesting thoughts , with personification, Ian
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