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FROM THE CITY OF WASHINGTON	A
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'Tis evening now beneath the western star	B
Soft sighs the lover through his sweet cigar	B
And fills the ears of some consenting she	C
With puffs and vows with smoke and constancy	C
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The patriot fresh from Freedom's councils come	D
Now pleased retires to lash his slaves at home	E
Or woo perhaps some black Aspasia's charms	F
And dream of freedom in his bondsmaid's arms	F
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In fancy now beneath the twilight gloom	G
Come let me lead thee o'er this second Rome	E
Where tribunes rule where dusky Davi bow	H
And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber now	H
This embryo capital where Fancy sees	I
Squares in morasses obelisks in trees	I
Which second sighted seers even now adorn	J
With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn	J
Though naught but woods and Jefferson they see	C
Where streets should run and sages ought to be	C
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And look how calmly in yon radiant wave	K
The dying sun prepares his golden grave	K
Oh mighty river oh ye banks of shade	L
Ye matchless scenes in nature's morning made	L
While still in all the exuberance of prime	M
She poured her wonders lavishly sublime	M
Nor yet had learned to stoop with humbler care	N
From grand to soft from wonderful to fair	N
Say were your towering hills your boundless floods	O
Your rich savannas and majestic woods	P
Where bards should meditate and heroes rove	Q
And woman charm and man deserve her love	R
Oh say was world so bright but born to grace	S
Its own half organized half minded race	S
Of weak barbarians swarming o'er its breast	T
Like vermin gendered on the lion's crest	T
Were none but brutes to call that soil their home	E
Where none but demigods should dare to roam	E
Or worse thou wondrous world oh doubly worse	U
Did heaven design thy lordly land to nurse	U
The motley dregs of every distant clime	E
Each blast of anarchy and taint of crime	E
Which Europe shakes from her perturbed sphere	V
In full malignity to rankle here	W
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But hold observe yon little mount of pines	X
Where the breeze murmurs and the firefly shines	X
There let thy fancy raise in bold relief	Y
The sculptured image of that veteran chief	Y
Who lost the rebel's in the hero's name	E
And climb'd o'er prostrate royalty to fame	E
Beneath whose sword Columbia's patriot train	Z
Cast off their monarch that their mob might reign	Z
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How shall we rank thee upon glory's page	A2
Thou more than soldier and just less than sage	A2
Of peace too fond to act the conqueror's part	B2
Too long in camps to learn a statesman's art	B2
Nature designed thee for a hero's mould	C2
But ere she cast thee let the stuff grow cold	C2
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While loftier souls command nay make their fate	D2
Thy fate made thee and forced thee to be great	D2
Yet Fortune who so oft so blindly sheds	E2
Her brightest halo round the weakest heads	E2
Found thee undazzled tranquil as before	F2
Proud to be useful scorning to be more	F2
Less moved by glory's than by duty's claim	E
Renown the meed but self applause the aim	E
All that thou wert reflects less fame on thee	C
Far less than all thou didst forbear to be	C
Nor yet the patriot of one land alone	G2
For thine's a name all nations claim their own	G2
And every shore where breathed the good and brave	K
Echoed the plaudits thy own country gave	K
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Now look my friend where faint the moonlight falls	H2
On yonder dome and in those princely halls	H2
If thou canst hate as sure that soul must hate	D2
Which loves the virtuous and reveres the great	D2
If thou canst loathe and execrate with me	C
The poisoning drug of French philosophy	C
That nauseous slaver of these frantic times	I2
With which false liberty dilutes her crimes	I2
If thou has got within thy free born breast	T
One pulse that beats more proudly than the rest	T
With honest scorn for that inglorious soul	J2
Which creeps and whines beneath a mob's control	J2
Which courts the rabble's smile the rabble's nod	K2
And makes like Egypt every beast its god	K2
There in those walls but burning tongue forbear	F2
Rank must be reverenced even the rank that's there	F2
So here I pause and now dear Hume we part	B2
But oft again in frank exchange of heart	B2
Thus let us meet and mingle converse dear	F2
By Thames at home or by Potowmac here	F2
O'er lake and marsh through fevers and through fogs	L2
'Midst bears and yankees democrats and frogs	M2
Thy foot shall follow me thy heart and eyes	N2
With me shall wonder and with me despise	N2
While I as oft in fancy's dream shall rove	Q
With thee conversing through that land I love	R
Where like the air that fans her fields of green	O2
Her freedom spreads unfevered and serene	O2
And sovereign man can condescend to see	C
The throne and laws more sovereign still than he	C

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