Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for aft… - Robert Southey

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Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!

Robert Southey

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Robert Southey (August 12 1774 – March 21 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate.

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[H]e that despairs limits an infinite power to a finite apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little contracted model.

Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,
“Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!”

You are old, Father William." the young man cried,
"The few locks which are left you are grey;
You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man:
Now tell me the reason, I pray.

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