On the BIRTH-DAY of WASHINGTON

Americans rejoice! While songs employ each voice, Let trumpets sound: The thirteen stripes display, On flags and streamers gay, 'Tis WASHINGTON birth day, Joy shall abound.

From scenes of rural peace, From affluence and ease, At Freedom a call; A hero from his birth, Great Washington stands forth, The scourge of George and North, And tyrants all.

Those renown'd chiefs of old, Caesars and heroes bold, Who realms have won, Smit by his brighter blaze, Hide their diminish'd rays, And yield the palm of praise To WASHINGTON.

The silver trump of fame, His glories shall proclaim, 'Till time is done; Genius, with taste refin'd, Valor, with courage join'd, 'Bove all, an honest mind, Has WASHINGTON.

Long may he live to see, This land of liberty, Flourish in peace; Long may he live to prove A grateful people's love, And late to Heaven remove, Where joys ne'er cease.

Fill the glass to the brink, Washington's health we'll drink, 'Tis his birth day: Glorious deeds he has done, By him our cause is won, Long live our WASHINGTON, Huzza! huzza!