Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

His work well done, the leader stepped aside Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride. Content to wear the higher crown of worth, While time endures, "First citizen of earth."

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light.