<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115130" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Washington. On Huntington's picture of Washington crossing the Alleghany in early life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">More proudly on thy winding course,<br> Dark Alleghany! flow;<br> The noblest burden thou couldst bear<br> Is on thy waters now.<br> <br> But calm be every turbid wave,<br> And hushed be wind and storm:<br> There lies a Nation's destiny<br> Within that gallant form.<br> <br> A spirit that shall stem a tide<br> More deep and dark than thine;<br> That on a night of War shall bid<br> The star of Victory shine.<br> <br> A spirit that through coming time<br> Shall bear a hallowed name;<br> The glory of old conquerors<br> Shall pale before his fame.<br> <br> And young Ambition on his course<br> Shall turn his eagle eye;<br> And men invoke his sainted shade<br> In threat'ning anarchy.<br> <br> No baleful meteor shall he be,<br> To dazzle from afar;<br> But in the firmament of Fame<br> A fixed, a polar star!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115130" data-title="Washington. On Huntington's picture of Washington crossing the Alleghany in early life de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="More proudly on thy winding course,/ Dark Alleghany! flow;/ The noblest burden thou couldst bear/ Is on thy waters now./ / But calm be every turbid wave,/ And hushed be wind and storm:/ There lies a Nation's destiny/ Within that gallant form./..."></div> </div> </div>

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