Quote:
What care though rival cities soar
Along the stormy coast,
Penn’s town, New York, Baltimore,
If Boston knew the most!
Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Category: Boston, Massachusetts
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Boston,” Selected Poems (1876).
Read in 1873 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
