Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-01-29

mes suggested NV high spirited resolution" Of
ber at the Virginia Legislature.
To you for go,dto pay my iegi,ns,
Hh,eh you d'"ied me.
Il, med you not" SHAKESPEARE.
Can Washington glory departy
Must he ask the all III Il tomb
Whose monuments rear'd i'm the heart,
Whose mem'ry for shall bloom,
Till The states fall earth and the sinks in blond
The modest the Valiant the just, great aud goou.
Doth Washington ask cold pillar OF stone
To guard his great name from decay
That name hicls stands peerless untarnshed, alone
And shall stand, I'LL our globe pass away!
The ,,ran's fraii glory time sweeps in his course
but Waslsngtons adan'ant mocks at his force.
Can the memoir, OF Washington die.
There rolls not ut the
There sweeps not blast DER the sky
But bears il abroad to the free!
On sur ring, in peril, in carnage, in flame,
lie carv'd on creaiion the pride of his name
And IL beams like bow from the cloud
ArcId out when the ,ieluge was Ger,
As sign to the mighty and proud,
That the nations should perish more;
And like light sent from Heaven, 1t burns refund the
sword
or the Greek who strikes ut his infdei lord.
To the Greek-io the Greek. hear your gold,
As all aidless he tolls he free;
Aud tell him, tho Wsshington's ashes are cold,
That the ohTring you bear DER the sea
His spirit has sent to the gauntleted brave,
who Tor liberty bied near Leunidas grave
Ave the siun,ber, of Greece is now o'er--
No myrtle-~reaih naptles her sword;
But she moves in her brightness more,
And strikes at the brow Of her lord
Her bound and hruis'd spirit has burst into fame.
Anu her echoes again, shout the Spartan proud
Her affairs were freess-her columns o'erthrown,
And ruin his trophies of green.
In mockery wrrath'd round the nlouldering stone.
Where the chise of Phidias had been.
Aud the smoke OF the nfdel ,ain'd the proud walls
Where saor's right hand hung her Persian SPOTS.
Long ages OF darkress have past
Since the proud Roman promised, in vain
but she breaks from her slumher at last
Aud rends, As she rises, her chain:
lbs of her er sofVa
Like the call OF rumpei, cries sleep We no noren
On ota the fres oi freedom are cleaning
Aud strong hands and build hearts gather there;
From findus, the banner of freedom is streaming
It's biaZonry proudly in air:
Aud the fountains of freedom gsb out nj the sound
o the 6Geehs fiery steed, be paws ON the ground
And her sky wears n lovelipr blue
Ana her streams are all moving in light
On her bills falls boiler dew
Aid hres OF more purity kindle her night:
ANA her breeze l. too balmy aud blessed To wave
ringiet that curls on the brow of n slave!
And is this hut dream shall she wake
And find u all melted in air.
Can morn of despair eye break
On vision glcr.nusly fair.
lier sword ini' scalhard-her trumnet uubIown,
he chain round her heart and the on her throne
BY the days al her glory, ere vet
She had bow'i like a bondman her knee
Nv tie blood vi her heroes that wet
The hrsi shoots of fair iHberty's tree
by your feelings of youth, when The Of her
was war drum To wake your spirits 10 fame;
Ivy The mother who CHERISHED your youth
Nv me daughter who cIings round your knee
Wy the spirit of love and truth
ItN the home and the hearth of the free
-. me nercilrss mart where the malrun and maid
Were sold as the spoil OF the infdel's blade:
by the infant who smiles in your face
with a pleading the soul can't \. withstand
by pure womai,s thrice haliow ed rmbrac.-
Nv ne blood pour'd AT Scio like rain on the sand
ny The shrek of the feeble. and curse of the bold;
gold!