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From Arthur Selwyn's Note book	A
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At The Summit Of The Washington Monument	B
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Look North A white clad city fills	C
This valley to its sloping hills	C
Here gleams the modest house of white	D
The statesman's longed for dizzy height	D
Beyond a pledge of love to one	E
Who in two lands was Freedom's son	E
The holder of an endless debt	F
Our nation's brother Lafayette	F
But yonder lines of costly homes	G
And bristling spires and swelling domes	G
And far away the spreading farms	H
Where thrift displays substantial charms	H
And hamlets creeping out of sight	D
And cities full of wealth and might	D
Must own the fatherhood of him	I
Whose glory Time can never dim	I
All who can reckon Freedom's worth	J
Would write across this whole broad earth	J
With pen dipped in the golden sun	E
The magic name of Washington	E
If we can keep the rules he gave	K
This land he more than fought to save	K
Our future fame will glisten forth	L
Grand as the winter lighted North	L
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Look South where in its coat of gray	M
The broad Potomac creeps away	M
And seeks the blue of distant skies	N
But pauses where the great chief lies	N
Within his humble hallowed tomb	O
Amid Mount Vernon's deathless bloom	O
As glides this stream great corse past thee	P
First to the bay and then the sea	P
So flowed thy life to rural rest	Q
Ere thou wast Heaven's eternal guest	Q
Oh strong high man whose patriot heart	R
Climbed from all common greeds apart	R
To whom men's selfish ways were small	S
As from this tower serenely tall	S
Built that all years thy fame may know	T
Men look while creeping there below	T
How weak was power to thy clear gaze	U
Builder of nations joined in one	E
Kindler of splendors still to blaze	U
Finder of glories just begun	E
Live on great sleeper as this stone	V
Highest from earth that man has known	V
So shall be ranked thy solid worth	J
Highest of heroes on the earth	J
Happy secure and cherished name	W
Love is the pillar of thy fame	W
Thy praise comes from each patriot's mouth	X
Warm as the sunbeams of the South	X
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Look East The Nation's castle walls	Y
Spread out in massive beauty now	Z
Their lofty dome and pictured halls	Y
In homage to this summit bow	Z
Oh well that from these palaced lands	A2
The marble spire obeisance win	B2
But for the one for whom it stands	A2
This chieftain town had never been	B2
Yon plot so full of brain and will	C2
Had staid a bleak and lonely hill	C2
If at five thousand dizzy feet	D2
This shaft the whirling clouds could meet	D2
Until our gaze for miles might be	P
To the uncrowned but royal sea	P
'Twere not too much of honor then	E2
To grant our crownless king of men	E2
You who the Nation's laws indite	D
Look to this summit's honest white	D
Where throned on walls that must endure	F2
Pure fame entreats you to be pure	F2
Until our glory be increased	G2
Like sunbeams from the dazzling East	G2
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Look West There lie the hilly fields	H2
Where brothers fought through days of dread	I2
Where mothers brooded o'er their dead	I2
And soil the thrift of carnage yields	H2
Where cannon roared and bullets sung	J2
Till every hillock had a tongue	J2
O Nation being and to be	P
That silent blood speaks loud to thee	P
God grant if e'er our guns again	E2
Must tear the quivering flesh of men	E2
The leaden hail storm may be pressed	Q
Against some foul invader's breast	Q
Against some alien tribe and zone	V
And not as then to kill our own	V
May all the fruitful strifes of peace	K2
The thrilling bonds of love increase	K2
May yonder orb in his quick change	L2
From mountain range to mountain range	L2
From valley to rich valley o'er	M2
From river shore to river shore	N2
From wave to wave may yonder sun	E
One Nation count and only one	E
Until he dips his fiery crest	Q
Into the ocean of the West	Q
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Look up The phantom clouds of gray	M
Grim ghosts of storm have passed away	M
The veiling of the sky is done	E
And downward shines the welcome sun	E
He kindles grand and peaceful fires	O2
Upon the city's domes and spires	P2
He sends his strong magnetic glow	T
Through yonder moving throngs below	T
Thou art O sky serene and clear	Q2
A symbol of our country here	R2
What land in all this world of pain	S2
This earth where millions toil in vain	S2
Where famine pestilence and strife	T2
Play careless games with human life	T2
Where Superstition clouds the soul	U2
And heartless brains sad hearts control	U2
What country framed in frost or flowers	O2
Can see so clear a sky as ours	O2
Peace throws her mantle broad and free	P
O'er all who peaceable will be	P
Plenty her sheltering flag doth wave	K
O'er those who will but toil and save	K
Enlightenment each day shall rise	N
For all who do not cloud their eyes	N
While Liberty from every race	V2
Has made this land a refuge place	V2
Let our deep thanks forever fly	W2
Far as the reaches of the sky	W2
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From Farmer Harrington's Note book	A
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NOVEMBER	M2
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Went to Mount Vernon and I wouldn't have lost	X2
That trip for fifteen hundred times its cost	Y2
Those farm lands sleeping in the autumn sun	E
The house HE slept in when his work was done	E
The trees he planted with his own brave hand	Z2
That set out Freedom's trees all o'er the land	Z2
The humble tomb he lies in which like me	P
Pilgrims from all the world have come to see	P
These look up in one's eyes and sadly smile	A3
And preach a funeral sermon all the while	A3
Even the river boats upon their way	M
Toll bells as if he'd died that very day	M
And through it all this precept may be traced	B3
The noblest men are simplest in their taste	B3
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I've read how grand Napoleon's tomb is made	C3
And all the surface honors to him paid	C3
But I don't think the people that come there	D3
Bring any heartfelt sympathy to spare	D3
While every true brained patriot night and morn	E3
Thanks God for letting Washington be born	E3
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While I was standing hat off at the tomb	O
A youth approached three quarters made of bloom	O
And with his hat perched on his close sheared head	I2
And smoking a small white cigar he said	I2
Sirrh would you kindly just enlighten me	P
As to where Gawge cut down the cherry tree	P
Said I Young man just please at once disgorge	F3
The fool idea of calling that man 'George '	-
His body mind and soul were firmly set	F
Higher no doubt than you will ever get	F
He isn't the man though lying dead 'tis true	G3
When friends are near to be half named by you	G3
Take off your hat and bow if you rebel	H3
I'll get a cherry switch and trounce you well	I3
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He looked at me a moment in surprise	N
And mutiny stood foremost in his eyes	N
But I was quite indignant and could feel	J3
The blood of Bunker Hill all through me steal	J3
I said One minute more will be allowed	K3
The fine young man took off his hat and bowed	K3
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Irreverence is the fashion nowadays	U
And shows itself in good and evil ways	U
Its mission is legitimate and clear	Q2
In cases where there's nothing to revere	Q2
But they who use it must be judgment fixed	L3
And not get reverend and unreverend mixed	L3