The miscellaneous works of David Humphreys Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid |
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Beneath whose banner broad in war unfurl'd,
With Washington I toil'd! beneath whose shade
With him beheld thy fruits in peace display'd!—
Say why such deep'ning glooms this day o'erspread,
Thy annual feast, as for some dearest dead?
After having served through the war with General Washington, the author accompanied him to Mount-Vernon, and was the last officer belonging to the army of the United States who parted from the Commander in Chief. He afterwards returned and resided at that seat during the whole time which elapsed between the publication of the present Constitution and the election of General Washington as first President: And when Mr. Charles Thompson came there, by direction of Congress, to notify that event, the author was the only person (their domestics excepted) who attended the President to New-York, then the temporary residence of the government.
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