| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1377. George Washington |
| | | By John Hall Ingham |
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| THIS was the man God gave us when the hour | |
| Proclaimed the dawn of Liberty begun; | |
| Who dared a deed, and died when it was done | |
| Patient in triumph, temperate in power,— | |
| Not striving like the Corsican to tower | 5 |
| To heaven, nor like great Philip’s greater son | |
| To win the world and weep for worlds unwon, | |
| Or lose the star to revel in the flower. | |
| The lives that serve the eternal verities | |
| Alone do mould mankind. Pleasure and pride | 10 |
| Sparkle awhile and perish, as the spray | |
| Smoking across the crests of cavernous seas | |
| Is impotent to hasten or delay | |
| The everlasting surges of the tide. | |
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