Shall be henceforth a MECCA to the sons
Of freedom, temperance and Christian love,
To make their pilgrimages to that spot,
And bend in reverence at the good man’s shrine,
The second Washington, as men have bowed,
And ever will do honor, to the first!
And as the Canaanites, when they observed
The grief of Israel’s children round his grave,
And heard their lamentations loud and long,
Said, “This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians,”