A tribute to the immortal dead!

Fain would the muse those virtues scan,

Which dignified the godlike man,

And launch in seas without a shore;

But sure his name alone conveys

More than a thousand hymns of praise,

The matchless Washington’s no more!

DIRECTIONS FOR DOING POETRY.[127]
IN THE SIMPLE STYLE OF SOUTHEY, WORDSWORTH, AND OTHER MODERN METRE MONGERS.