America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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