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Show WASHINGTON Soldier and statesman, rarest unison; Hlfln poised example of great duties done Simply as breathing, a world's honors worn At life's indifferent gifts to all men born: Dumb for himself, unless It were to God. But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent, Tramping the tnow to coral where they trod, Held by his awe in hollow eyed con tent! , Modest, yet firm as Nature's self; un blamed Save by the men his nobler temper I shamed; Not honored then 'or now because he I wooed The pepulsr voice, but that he still withstood; I Broad minded, higher-touted, there is i but one Who vvas all this, and ours, and'all men's, Waihlnrjton. James Rusiell Lowell, |