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Show j WASHINGTON j What figure more immovably august ? ; i Than that great strength to patient and bo ( pure, S , ' Calm in good fortune, when it wavered, sure, j i, 1 hat mind serene, impenetrably just. Modeled on classic lines so simple they ,' endure? 7 That soul so softly radiant and so white The track it left seems less of tire than light, ! ,' Cold but to such as love ili".temperat urc ? J 1 ' And if pure light, as some deem, be the force j ' That drives revolving plnnets on their course, J ' j Why for his power benign seek an tmpurer source ? ? 1 1 Hts was the true enthusiasm that burns long, jj 4, Domestically bright, ' y Fed from itself and shy of human sight, y ' The hidden force that makes a lifetime strong, ? And uot the short-lived f uel of a sontt- 'i Passionless, say you? W hat is passion for J , 1 but to sublime our natures and control z t To front heroic toils with late return, Z 'i Or none, or such as shames the conqueror? j 1 That nre whs fed vi ith substance of the ioul And not witb holiday stubble, that could Z 'i burn, 7 Dnpraised of men who after bonfires run. J ' i Through seven slow years of uuadvancing Z I 1 1 war, 7 j ', Equal when fields were lost or fields were won, 7 , Vith breadth of popular applause or blame, 4 J1 Nor fanned oor damped, unquestionably the 7 t same, '1 Toe inward to be reached by flawa of idle J' fame. 7 Soldier and statesman, rarest unison ; ? 1 1 H igh-poised example of great duties done ? ' 1 Simply as breathing, world's honor worn j 1 As life's indiiterent gffts to all men born ; 7 , Dumb for himself, unless it were to God. Z '1 But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent, i 1 j 1 Tramping the snow to coral where they trod, J ; 1 1 Held by his awe in hollow-eyed content : Z ! 1 Modest, yet firm as Nature's self ; unblamed i j j1 Save by the men his nobier temper shamed; J i 1 1 Never seduced through show of present good 2 S By other than unsening lights to steer y j ' New-trimmed in Heaven, oor than his stead- 7 1 1 fast mood 2 j 1 1 More steadfast, far from rashness as from J J ' fear ; 7 t 1 Rigid, but with himself first, grasping still 2 1 s In swerveless poise the wave-beat helm of j ' 1 1 Not honored then or now because he wooed i i The popular voice, but that he still withstood; j ' Broad-minded , high-souled, there is but one J I 1', Who wp.s all this oad ours, and all men's, Z ! U Washineton. i ; J1 James Russell Lowel!. 7 |