<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478634" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>His Excellency General Washington</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,<br>Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write.<br>While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms,<br>She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms.<br>See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan,<br>And nations gaze at scenes before unknown!<br>See the bright beams of heaven's revolving light<br>Involved in sorrows and the veil of night!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The Goddess comes, she moves divinely fair,<br>Olive and laurel binds Her golden hair:<br>Wherever shines this native of the skies,<br>Unnumber'd charms and recent graces rise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Muse! Bow propitious while my pen relates<br>How pour her armies through a thousand gates,<br>As when Eolus heaven's fair face deforms,<br>Enwrapp'd in tempest and a night of storms;<br>Astonish'd ocean feels the wild uproar,<br>The refluent surges beat the sounding shore;<br>Or think as leaves in Autumn's golden reign,<br>Such, and so many, moves the warrior's train.<br>In bright array they seek the work of war,<br>Where high unfurl'd the ensign waves in air.<br>Shall I to Washington their praise recite?<br>Enough thou know'st them in the fields of fight.<br>Thee, first in peace and honors—we demand<br>The grace and glory of thy martial band.<br>Fam'd for thy valour, for thy virtues more,<br>Hear every tongue thy guardian aid implore!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> One century scarce perform'd its destined round,<br>When Gallic powers Columbia's fury found;<br>And so may you, whoever dares disgrace<br>The land of freedom's heaven-defended race!<br>Fix'd are the eyes of nations on the scales,<br>For in their hopes Columbia's arm prevails.<br>Anon Britannia droops the pensive head,<br>While round increase the rising hills of dead.<br>Ah! Cruel blindness to Columbia's state!<br>Lament thy thirst of boundless power too late.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side,<br>Thy ev'ry action let the Goddess guide.<br>A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine,<br>With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! Be thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Phillis+Wheatley">Phillis Wheatley</a><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=478634" data-title="His Excellency General Washington de Phillis Wheatley" data-description="Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light, Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms. See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan, And nations gaze at ..."></div> </div> </div>

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