His work well done, the leader stepped aside
Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride.
Content to wear the higher crown of worth,
While time endures, "First citizen of earth."
'Twas his ambition, generous and great
A life to life's great end to consecrate.
While Washington hath left
His awful memory,
A light for after times.
Washington—a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light.
That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone amid the storm of war, a beacon light to cheer and guide the country's friends; it named too like a meteor to repel her foes.
That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all tribes and races of men, will forever be pronounced with affectionate gratitude by everyone in whose breast there shall arise an aspiration for human rights and liberty.
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone
would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Daniel Webster—Completion of Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1843. Vol. I. P. 105.
WATER
Still waters run no mills.
Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring,
But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.
| author = Anon.
| note = In the Spectator, July 31, 1. Attributed to Hon. G. W. E. Russell, also to Lord Neaves. Several versions given in Notes and Queries. Oct. 23, 1897. Pouring oil on troubled water. Bede—Historia Ecclesiastica. Bk. III. Ch. XV. P. 142. (Hussey's Ed.) Bede says he received the account from Cynemund, who heard it from Utta. Found also in St. Basil—Hexasm. Horn. II. Erasmus—Adagia. Plautus—Peenulus. V. IV. 66.
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| text = A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.
Tom Brown—Works. Vol. IV. P. 11.
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| text = The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Pt. III.
Sec. ni. Memb. 4. Subsect. 1.
| seealso = (See also Titus Andronicus)
Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth;
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,
You'd wish yourself where Truth is—in a well.
| author = Byron
| work = Don Juan. Canto II. St. 84.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
Coleridge—Ancient Mariner. Pt. II. St. 9.
| seealso = (See also Homek)
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| text = The world turns softly
Not to spill its lakes and rivers,
The water is held in its arms
And the sky is held in the water.
What is water,
That pours silver,
And can hold the sky?
Hilda Conkltng—Water.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
Genesis. XUX. 4.
Water its living strength first shows,
When obstacles its course oppose.
Goethe—God, Soul, and World. Rhymed Distichs.
And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
Homer—The Odyssey. Bk. XI. L. 722.
Pope's trans.
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| text = <poem>Water is the mother of the vine,
The nurse and fountain of fecundity,
The adorner and refresher of the world.
Chas. Mackay—The Dionysia.
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. III. L. 11.
I'm very fond of water:
It ever must delight
Each mother's son and daughter,—
When qualified aright.
Lord Neaves—I'm very fond of Water.
