ABSTRACT
Thy capes, Virginia, towering from the tide, Raise their blue banks and slope thy barriers wide, To future sails unfold an inland way And guard secure thy multifluvian bay; That drains uncounted realms, and here unites The liquid mass from Alleganian heights. York leads his wave, imbank'd in flowery pride, And nobler James falls winding by his side; Back to the hills, thro many a silent vale, Wild Rappahanoc seems to lure the sail, Patapsco's bosom courts the hand of toil, Dull Susquehanna laves a length of soil; But mightier far, in sealike azure spread, Potomac sweeps his earth disparting bed.
