“Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
Ode written during the War with America (1814).
“No—living on after the memory died was mere farce, pointless and awful.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 644)
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