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Show THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. It stands apart alone supreme, A shaft of stone matchless sublime; It marks a nation's grand esteem For one, "our father for all time." Plain, unadorned, immaculate, It rises high toward heaven. No name is graven, neither date; All know the Jilst'ry so unwritten. This peerless pile of solid stone Is not a sphinx, nor yet a tomb; It speaks; it lives, and beckons on The generations yet to come. Fit monument for one so great-Ills great-Ills country's pride and boast; His spirit banishes all hate And binds the states from coast to coast. |