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LA FAYETTE.
See him surrounded by admiring crowds,
And modestly receive their salutations,
While their united plaudits rend the clouds,
To prove republics may be grateful nations.
Behold him grasp some hoary veteran's hand,
Or press an old associate to his breast,
While in his eyes the tears of rapture stand,
By which the noblest feelings are exprest.
And modestly receive their salutations,
While their united plaudits rend the clouds,
To prove republics may be grateful nations.
Behold him grasp some hoary veteran's hand,
Or press an old associate to his breast,
While in his eyes the tears of rapture stand,
By which the noblest feelings are exprest.
Behold him in the festive scene, where one
Full tide of pleasure through each bosom flows,
Or bending o'er the tomb of Washington,
Or on the ensanguined spot where freedom's foes
Beheld him leading her resistless van—
In every scene you find him still—a man.
But O, the moral grandeur of that hour,
When introduced beneath our Senate's dome,
The solemn conclave hailed him welcome home,
Leaves human language destitute of power
To do it justice. It was more sublime
Than any scene upon the page of time.
Full tide of pleasure through each bosom flows,
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Or on the ensanguined spot where freedom's foes
Beheld him leading her resistless van—
In every scene you find him still—a man.
But O, the moral grandeur of that hour,
When introduced beneath our Senate's dome,
The solemn conclave hailed him welcome home,
Leaves human language destitute of power
To do it justice. It was more sublime
Than any scene upon the page of time.
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