[JustAmy]

America For Me

'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down
Among the famous palaces and cities of renown,
To admire the crumblyh castles and the statues and kings
But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things.

So it's home again, and home again, America for me!
My heart is turning home again and there I long to be,
In the land of youth and freedom, beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.

I like the German fir-woods in green battalions drilled;
I like the gardens of Versailles with flashing foutains filled;
But, oh, to take your hand, my dear, and ramble for a day
In the friendly western woodland where Nature has her sway!

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack!
The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.
But the glory of the Present is to make the Future free--
We love our land for what she is and what she is to be.

Oh, it's home again, and home again, America for me!
I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea,
To the blessed Land of Room Enough, beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars

...Henry Van Dyke

[dutchess]

Hi Billie, lovely sistahs and finest friends. Just a quick in and out. Another busy work day.

Billie...Absolutely beautiful thread. What a great idea and so very "patriotic" and pretty.

Continued prayers friends for our California friends, military men and women AND for GWB.

Have a great afternoon all...Hope to stop back after work!

[Billie]

Thanks for your post, Amy. That's such a pretty picture of Lady Liberty. and I love the poem. There really is no place like home, when home is America. :)

[GailA]

Love today's thread. America is the ONLY place I'd choose to live.

DK, Rocky and I had a nice quiet weekend camping, the first time we'd gone camping in several years.

Went to the doc's this morning. I got water in my ears from showering with out my ear plugs..needless to say I got an ear infection (you'd think at 55 and being plagued with 'swimmer's ear' for years and years, I'd REMEMBER to use those ear plugs when I shampoo my hair. He also says I've OA in my finger joints, to take tylenol one week then asprin the next, to use warm moist heat on my hands and to baby them. And to get one of those therapy squeeze balls and use it.