. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . slain are all dancing I Dearest, dont away from my boy ; he s guarded by , lullaby ; sleep, sweet darling, sleep IGod and thy mother will watch oer thee keep FROM WASHINGTONS INAUGURAL. ^T would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, ray fer- \ vent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the uni- I verse, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may


. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . slain are all dancing I Dearest, dont away from my boy ; he s guarded by , lullaby ; sleep, sweet darling, sleep IGod and thy mother will watch oer thee keep FROM WASHINGTONS INAUGURAL. ^T would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, ray fer- \ vent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the uni- I verse, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may conse- 604 FROM WASHINGTONS INAUGUBAL. crate, to the ^iberties and happiness of the people of the United States,a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, andmay enable every instrument employed in the administration to executewith success the functions allotted to its charge. In tendering this homageto the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself thatit expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than MOUNT VERNON, WASDINOTONs MODEST HOME. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisiljlc handwhich conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the UnitedStates. Every step by which they have advanced to the character ofan independent nation seenu; to have been distinguished ])y some tokt-nof Irovidential agency; and in the important revolution just ac(^ in the system of tli-ir united government, the traiKjuil (lrlib,iMti,iiiHand voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which t1i(»event hjis resulted, cannot bo compared with the means by whicli have been , without some return of p-ous gratitude,ulong witli an humble anticipation of the future bleaaiugs which the 2)aatseems to presage. THE COUNTESS. 60o SLEEP OF THE BRA VE.


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