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ODE TO WASHINGTON, by                    
First Line: Out of the pages of history, beyond our memories' kin
Last Line: Beyond the dim horizon, light of tomorrow's star.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


Out of the pages of history, beyond our memories' ken,
A figure stands colossal, high o'er the heads of men.
Time has burnished the luster of his brilliant and clear-seeing mind,
He only built the foundation and left a dream behind.

Now it would seem that the powers above had sent a man such as him
To shape the path for a nation to tread, then so obscure and dim.
Ways of the Old World, just shaken free, new guides, new laws yet untried,
A future he saw, without shackles or shame, the old order defied.

Two hundred years of struggle and strife, joy and achievement, too,
A nation as stanch as the foundation rock, to his ideal we hew.
Washington, this day we need your faith, your courage, and vision to see afar
Beyond the dim horizon, light of tomorrow's star.





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