WASHINGTON's

Political Legacies.

TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, AN

Appendir,

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS ILLNESS,
DEATH, AND THE NATIONAL TRIBUTES
OF RESPECT PAID TO HIS MEMORY,

WITH A

Biographical Sketch,

OF HIS

LIFE AND CHARACTER.

HIS WILL,

AND

Dr. TAPPAN'S DISCOURSE,

BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

NEW-YORK:

Printed by GEORGE FORMAN, no. 64, for o. DAVIS,

no. 167, water-street,

-1800.

A

(Wasking tone
Washington

H WASHINGTON! thou hero, patriot, sage! Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!

Were thine the laurels, every soil could raise,
The mighty harvest were penurious praise.
Well may our realms, thy Fabian wisdom boast;
Thy prudence sav'd, what bravery had lost.
Yet e'er hadst thou, by Heaven's severer fates,
Like Sparta's hero at the Grecian straits,

Been doom'd to meet, in arms, a world of foes, nor walls oppose,

Whom skill could not defeat.

Then had thy breast, by danger ne'er subdued,

The mighty Buckler of thy country stood;

Proud of its wounds, each piercing spear would bless,

Which left Columbia's foes one javelin less ;

Nor felt one pang-but, in the glorious deed,
Thy little band of heroes too, must bleed;
Northrobb'd one fear-but, that some poison'd dart
Thy breast might pass, and reach thy country's heart!