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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

George Washington

Anonymous

BY broad Potomac’s silent shore

Better than Trajan lowly lies,

Gilding her green declivities

With glory now and evermore;

Art to his fame no aid hath lent;

His country is his monument.