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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CUT ACROSS; A SONG OF THE PANAMA CANAL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Says new york to yokohama Last Line: "visit often, -- cut across!" Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone | |||
Says New York to Yokohama, To Calcutta and Bombay, To Peking, Manila, Bangkok, Sydney, Shanghai, Mandalay: "I am building you a channel Safe and easy -- I'm the boss! It's a short and simple journey. Come and see me: cut across!" This the call of San Francisco To Berlin and Liverpool, To Vienna, Cairo, London, Naples, Paris, and Stamboul: "I am making you a roadway, It's a modern, mighty foss; And the distance now is -- nothing. Come and see me: cut across!" Uncle Sam says to the nations, Nations big and nations small: "I am keeping open house now, And invite you to a call. For the world is growing narrow, And an ocean but a toss, When our ships can pierce an isthmus. Come and see me: cut across!" And the nations sing in chorus, Sing a song of happy peace: "Now we are so close together, It is time that wars should cease. Fighting is a wretched business; Loss, and loss, and only loss. Let us live as friends and neighbors, -- Visit often, -- cut across!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG OF PANAMA by ALFRED DAMON RUNYON THE PRESIDENT (THE PANAMA TOLLS) by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON PANAMA; HOME OF THE DOVE-PLANT OR HOLY GHOST FLOWER by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES THE SHIP CANAL FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC by FRANCIS LIEBER LIGHT OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS; POEM ON UNION OF THE OCEANS AT PANAMA by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER THE FLAG; AN INCIDENT OF STRAIN'S EXPEDITION by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE THE TIDES AT PANAMA by JOHN BANISTER TABB THE CHRIST OF PANAMA by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS HAD LINCOLN LIVED by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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