Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Christian Examiner and Theological Review Vol IV 1827/Washington's Statue
WASHINGTON'S STATUE.
SENT FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA.
Yes! rear thy guardian Hero's form,
On thy proud soil, thou Western World!
A watcher through each sign of storm,
O'er Freedom's flag unfurled.
There, as before a shrine to bow,
Bid thy true sons their children lead;
—The language of that noble brow
For all things good shall plead.
The spirit reared in patriot fight,
The virtue born of home and hearth,
There calmly throned, a holy light
Shall pour o'er chainless earth.
And let that work of England's hand,
Sent through the blast and surges' roar,
So girt with tranquil glory, stand
For ages on thy shore!
Such through all time the greetings be,
That with the Atlantic billows sweep!
Telling the mighty and the free
Of brothers o'er the deep!