CONTEMPORARY ODE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
Appealing A.D.S., 1p. 4to., [n.p., n.d.], a contemporary poem in sonnet form in praise of George Washington. In part: "Oh Washington! thou hero, patriot, sage!/Friend of all climates, pride of every age!/Were thine the laurels, every sail 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,/Whom skill could not defeat, nor walls oppose,/Then had thy breast, by danger ne'er subdued,/The mighty Buckler of thy country stood..." The writer has signed at the bottom: "George Barrett" and has titled his verse simply: "Washington". Laid down on a slightly larger sheet, very good.